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HIV spread in the San Francisco cohort: Scaling of the effective logistic rate for seropositivity
✍ Scribed by Gerald Rosen
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1988
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 360 KB
- Volume
- 50
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1522-9602
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✦ Synopsis
A simple scaling (semigroup) property is manifest in the functional form of the effective logistic rate for the increase in the HIV seropositive fraction in the San Francisco (City Clinic) cohort. With t,=4.5 years, this scaling property----r+1 -% under t+[lt + (A -1 )tJ for all parameter values 2. & 1 -encapsulates the effects of relevant biological and sociological changes in the key epidemiological variables during the &year seropositive rise period, 1923-1985 inclusive.