DAIDD 2014
Third annual Clinic on Dynamical Approaches to Infectious Disease Data
December 15-19, 2014, UF Emerging Pathogens Institute, Gainesville, FL, USA
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SIR Model Family Exercise
- Download a version of the spreadsheet using this link
    
- Experiment with parameters
 - What happens when R0<1 and there are several initial infections? Is this equivalent to having an R0>1? Why or why not?
 - What happens when R0 is near 1?
 - Can you make two epidemics with the same size and shape, but different speed?
 - Try adding more rows (especially important if you change the timestep to be smaller!)
 - Can you make two epidemics with the same speed and shape, but different size (fewer total infected individuals)?
 
 - Close the loop: add loss of immunity
    
- Experiment with parameters (again!)
 - What controls the cycle period?
 - What controls the equilibrium?
 - Are there parameters for which the disease approaches a persistent equilibrium without cycling?
 
 
