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A groaning demographic
Author(s) -
Zelterman Daniel
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2014.00783.x
Subject(s) - zombie , population , biostatistics , humanity , operations research , demography , data science , computer science , sociology , medicine , engineering , computer security , political science , law , epidemiology , pathology
What if zombies were real? And what if, rather than wiping out humanity, we found a way to coexist, to manage the problem? We would need data, of course information about the undead horde – to help develop an appropriate civil response. And we would need people like Daniel Zelterman , professor of biostatistics at Yale University, to compile and analyse that data. In this extract from the new book, Mathematical Modelling of Zombies – billed as a maths‐based survival guide – Zelterman explores the distribution of the US zombie population in the days, weeks and months that followed the night of the living dead