Modeling epidemics: A primer and Numerus Model Builder implementation

Wayne M. Getz, Richard Salter, Oliver Muellerklein, Hyun S. Yoon, Krti Tallam
2018 Epidemics  
A B S T R A C T Epidemiological models are dominated by compartmental models, of which SIR formulations are the most commonly used. These formulations can be continuous or discrete (in either the state-variable values or time), deterministic or stochastic, or spatially homogeneous or heterogeneous, the latter often embracing a network formulation. Here we review the continuous and discrete deterministic and discrete stochastic formulations of the SIR dynamical systems models, and we outline how
more » ... they can be easily and rapidly constructed using Numerus Model Builder, a graphically-driven coding platform. We also demonstrate how to extend these models to a metapopulation setting using NMB network and mapping tools.
doi:10.1016/j.epidem.2018.06.001 pmid:30017895 fatcat:5262jmv2qfdmbiczdhhjqroedq