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Scientists at Pusan National University, Department of Mathematics target life sciences
October 1st, 2008
Data detailed in 'Stability analysis and optimal vaccination of an SIR epidemic model' have been presented. "Almost all mathematical models of diseases start from the same basic premise: the population can be subdivided into a set of distinct classes dependent upon experience with respect to the relevant disease. Most of these models classify individuals as either a susceptible individual S, infected individual I or recovered individual R," investigators in Busan, South Korea report. "This is called the susceptible-infected-recovered (SIR) model. In this paper, we describe an SIR epidemic model with three components; S, I and R. We describe our study of stability...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2008-10-01)
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