A Probabilistic Individual-based Model for Infectious Diseases Outbreaks
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https://doi.org/10.11113/jt.v63.1950Keywords:
Computational epidemiology, infectious diseases, compartmental models, high-resolution models, computer simulationsAbstract
The mathematical modelling of infectious diseases is a large research area with a wide literature. In the recent past, most of the scientific contributions focused on compartmental models. However, the increasing computing power is pushing towards the development of individual models that consider the disease transmission and evolution at a very fine-grained level. In the paper, the authors give a short state of the art of compartmental models, summarise one of the most know individual models, and describe both a generalization and a simulation algorithm.
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