Course 1: Modelling how a disease spreads - the basics!
How numbers of Infected people grow, like water in a bathtub or debt on a credit card, leading to the "SIR" model of disease.
Course curriculum
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How a disease spreads - the basics
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How does a disease spread?
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Dynamic models -v- other types of model
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Why a disease is like a bath-tub !!
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How the "bathtub" model of infected people works
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Why a disease is even more like a credit-card !!
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How the credit-card model of infected people works
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... from the SIR model to SEIR, SIRD, SEIRD
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... from bath-tub and credit-card models to SIR models and more.
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"R" (and R0) - the numbers driving how fast a disease spreads
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