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4. FoI and Age-Dependence

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The force of infection (FoI) is the per capita rate at which susceptibles are exposed to infection. The FoI in the S(E)IR compartmental model (Eqs. (2.1)–(2.3) and (3.3)–(3.3)) is ϕ = βIN because each susceptible is assumed to contact other individuals in the population at some rate, the fraction of those contacts that are with infected individuals is IN, and β is by definition the contact rate times the probability of infection upon contact.1
This chapter uses the following R packages: splines, fields, and scatterplot3d.
A discussion of the force of infection can be found in two five minute epidemics MOOC videos:
The theoretical FoI is model specific, so more complicated models may have more complicated FoIs. The FoI for the Ebola SEIHFR model of Sect. 3.10, for example, is given by rate ① in Fig. 3.9.

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Title
FoI and Age-Dependence
Author
Ottar Bjørnstad
Copyright Year
2023
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12056-5_4
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