Mathematical epidemiology of infectious diseases usually involves describing the flow of individuals between mutually exclusive infection states. One of the key parameters describing the transition from the susceptible to the infected class is the hazard of infection, often referred to as the force of infection. The force of infection reflects the degree of contact with potential for transmission between infected and susceptible individuals. The mathematical relation between the force of infection and effective contact patterns is generally assumed to be subjected to the mass action principle, which yields the necessary information to estimate the basic reproduction number, another key parameter in infectious disease epidemiology. It is within this context that the Center for Statistics (CenStat, I-Biostat, Hasselt University) and the Centre for the Evaluation of Vaccination and the Centre for Health Economic Research and Modelling Infectious Diseases (CEV, CHERMID, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute, University of Antwerp) have collaborated over the past 15 years. This book demonstrates the past and current research activities of these institutes and can be considered to be a milestone in this collaboration. This book is focused on the application of modern statistical methods and models to estimate infectious disease parameters. We want to provide the readers with software guidance, such as R packages, and with data, as far as they can be made publicly available.

Mathematical epidemiology of infectious diseases usually involves describing the flow of individuals between mutually exclusive infection states. One of the key parameters describing the transition from the susceptible to the infected class is the hazard of infection, often referred to as the force of infection. The force of infection reflects the degree of contact with potential for transmission between infected and susceptible individuals. The mathematical relation between the force of infection and effective contact patterns is generally assumed to be subjected to the mass action principle, which yields the necessary information to estimate the basic reproduction number, another key parameter in infectious disease epidemiology. It is within this context that the Center for Statistics (CenStat, I-Biostat, Hasselt University) and the Centre for the Evaluation of Vaccination and the Centre for Health Economic Research and Modelling Infectious Diseases (CEV, CHERMID, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute, University of Antwerp) have collaborated over the past 15 years. This book demonstrates the past and current research activities of these institutes and can be considered to be a milestone in this collaboration. This book is focused on the application of modern statistical methods and models to estimate infectious disease parameters. We want to provide the readers with software guidance, such as R packages, and with data, as far as they can be made publicly available.

Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich BWL - Personal und Organisation, Note: 1,0, Hochschule Fresenius; Koln, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Angesicht der zuvor bekundeten Bedeutung des Humors und der geringen Berucksichtigung in deutschen Unternehmen wird sich die vorliegende Arbeit einhergehend mit der im Zusammenhang der Humorproblematik bei der Einfuhrung des Fuhrungsstils Humor beschaftigen. Ziel dieser Arbeit soll es sein, eine Handlungsempfehlung zu erarbeiten, die eine ganzheitliche Perspektive verfolgt. Eine Einbettung des Humors in den Arbeitsalltag gilt dabei als wesentliche Voraussetzung fur eine effiziente Nutzung komplexer Wirkungsmechanismen im Unternehmen und eine Steigerung des Unternehmenserfolgs. Anhand der im Folgenden aufgezeigten Komponenten Fuhrung, Motivation und Humor soll am Zusammenspiel dieser drei Faktoren angelehnt eine Handlungsempfehlung erstellt werden. Diese, fur die Fuhrungskraft zur Einbettung des Humors ins Unternehmen und zur adaquaten Motivation der Mitarbeiter, baut auf die zuvor definierten Rahmenbedingungen einer Humorkultur auf. Mittels des neuen Fuhrungsstils charismatischer Fuhrung" soll ein Handlungsvorschlag generiert werden, der Probleme und Risiken zu ermitteln sowie zu reduzieren weiss und somit die Erfolgssausichten der Einfuhrung des Humors als Fuhrungsstil erhoht