Summary: Spreading Processes
Modeling Infectious Disease Dynamics with Networks
What is epidemiology?
· Terms
­ Susceptible
­ Infected
­ Epidemic
· Questions asked:· Questions asked:
· will an epidemic occur?
· what is the typical size of an outbreak?
· what determines the probability of an epidemic?
· How do we control the spread?
S I R
susceptible infectious recovered
Compartmental models
I
dt
dR
IIIS
dt

Source: Albert, Réka - Departments of Biology & Physics, Pennsylvania State University

Collections: Biology and Medicine