Modeling Epidemics With Compartmental Models

Modeling Epidemics With Compartmental Models

This JAMA Guide to Statistics and Methods reviews the susceptible-infected-recovered (SIR) model for predicting the course of infectious disease outbreaks, which describes the transition of individuals from susceptible to infected and from infected to recovered, and discusses the model's limita...

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Veröffentlicht in:JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association 2020-06, Vol.323 (24), p.2515-2516
Hauptverfasser: Tolles, Juliana, Luong, ThaiBinh
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Betacoronavirus
Coronavirus Infections - epidemiology
COVID-19
Disease Susceptibility - immunology
Disease Transmission, Infectious - prevention & control
Epidemics
Forecasting
Health Status
Humans
Infectious diseases
Models, Theoretical
Mortality
Pandemics
Patient Isolation
Pneumonia, Viral - epidemiology
Quarantine
Recovery of Function
SARS-CoV-2
Statistical analysis
Statistical methods
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Zusammenfassung:This JAMA Guide to Statistics and Methods reviews the susceptible-infected-recovered (SIR) model for predicting the course of infectious disease outbreaks, which describes the transition of individuals from susceptible to infected and from infected to recovered, and discusses the model's limitations, including oversimplification of complex disease processes.
ISSN:0098-7484
1538-3598
DOI:10.1001/jama.2020.8420