Disease Dynamics Book

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
I	Models	1
1	A Basic Overview of Immunology	5
2	Model of Infectious Disease	15
3	A Non-linear Synthesis of the Immune System	35
4	A Model of Anti-viral Immune Response	49
5	Compartmental Models	67
	Appendix A: Modeling Delay Using Ordinary Differential Equations	83
II	Clinical Data Processing	95
6	The Problem of Parameter Estimation	101
7	Statistical Parameter Estimation	119
8	Marchuk-Zuev Identification Problem	141
9	An Experimental Influenza Investigation	155
10	Parameter Estimation for a Given Organism	165
	Appendix B: Generalized Index Construction	185
III	Mathematical Models in Cancer Research	195
11	The Tumor Growth Models	203
12	Tumor Growth Index	217
13	Tumor Dynamics and Control	229
14	Data Analysis in Cancer Research	247
15	Further Development of Cancer Research	271
	Appendix C: Other Models in Cancer Research	293