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- Third Party Resource Title: SIR Model - Finding Relationship between Contact Rate and Peak Infection Rate
- Third Party Resource Link: https://serc.carleton.edu/teaching_computation/workshop_2020/activities/238844.html
- Description: In this set of exercises, a script is developed that solves the coupled system of ordinary differential equations making up an SIR model of virus spread. The peak value computed for the infected population is found and the process repeats over several values of contact rate. This simple model gives students an example of using a ODE solver, spline interpolation, and function optimization all together to get a useful result.
- Publish Year: 2022
- Institution: California State University Los Angeles
