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2019 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
18. A Virtual Flu Epidemic
Exploring Epidemiology with Agent-Based Models
Authors : Alexander Lancaster, Gordon Webster
Published in: Python for the Life Sciences
Publisher: Apress
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Abstract
In this chapter we will introduce the SIR model, which stands for susceptible–infectious–recovered, a basic conceptual model in the fields of epidemiology, public health, and virology, among others. It will also allow us to introduce the idea of an agent-based model or ABM in which individual entities have their own unique identity within the model. .