«Deus escreve direito por linhas tortas»                                                                                            (portuguese proverb)

                                        .... updated January, 2005
 

                                             Nonlinear Dynamic Papers

        Trottier H & Philippe P: Scaling properties of childhood infectious diseases epidemics
        before and after mass vaccination in Canada. Journal of Theoretical Biology 2005; 235: 326-337.

        Philippe P, Garcia ML, West BJ:  Evidence of "essential uncertainty" in emergency-ward
        length of stay (EWLS). Fractals 2004; 12 (2): 197-209.

Philippe P: Epidemiology and self-organized critical systems: An analysis in waiting times and disease heterogeneity. Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and LifeSciences 2000; 4: 275-295.

Philippe P: The scale-invariant spatial clustering of leukemia in San Francisco. Journal of Theoretical Biology 1999; 199: 371-381.

Philippe P: Épistémologie de la recherche causale et épidémiologie des systèmes complexes.  Revue d'Épidémiologie et de Santé Publique 1999; 47: 474.477.

Philippe P & Mansi O: Nonlinearity in the epidemiology of complex health and disease processes. Theoretical Medicine 1998; 19: 591-607.

Philippe P & West BJ: The complex dynamics of diabetes modeled as a fractal complex-adaptive-system (FCAS). Brazilian Journal of Epidemiology 1998; 1: 280-293.

Philippe P: Teoria do caos e sistemas complexos em epidemiologia. In: Teoria e Epidemiologia Hoje. Fundamentos, interfaces e tendencias. Editors: de Almeida Filho, N; Lima Barreto, N; Peixoto Veras R; Barata RB. ABRACO, Seria epidemiologia 2, 1998. P. 213-223.

Guastello S & Philippe P: Dynamics in the development of large information exchange groups and virtual communities. Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and LifeSciences, 1997; 1:123-149.

Philippe P: MZ twinning: chance or determinism? An essay in nonlinear dynamics (chaos). Annals of Human Biology 1994 ;21: 423-434

Philippe P: Sartwell's incubation period model revisited in the light of dynamic modeling. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 1994; 47: 419-433

Philippe P: Chaos, population biology, and epidemiology: Some research implications. Human Biology 1993; 65: 525-546

Philippe P: Competing stochastic models of the incubation period: an analysis of age-at-diagnosis of familial and sporadic retinoblastoma. American Journal of Medical Genetics 1993; 46: 113-122.

Philippe P: Chaos and public health: Implications for an epidemic. Canadian Journal of Public Health 1992; 83: 165-166


Pierre Philippe, PhD, FACE
Professeur titulaire
Faculté de médecine
Université de Montréal
philippp@sympatico.ca