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Source code accompanying 'Mathematics of Epidemics on Networks' by Kiss, Miller, and Simon http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319508047 . Documentation for the software package is at https://epidemicsonnetworks.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
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General Design Qestion #59

Closed gaianoseworthy closed 4 years ago

gaianoseworthy commented 4 years ago

I am currently looking into using EoN for research on disease modeling with more modern issues included (I'm between 2nd and 3rd year in university, for reference), and so I have a quick question.

Let's say I wanted to design a more custom model in EoN (let's say a complex model based on the general SEIR model for the sake simplicity) that included the following features:

Would it be possible to build this in EoN? If not, would it be possible to use EoN source code to design this? (I would happily submit it to the GitHub repository if desired after completion of my research) I would likely use a Erd ̋os–R ́enyi or Barabási–Albert network for early modeling.

joelmiller commented 4 years ago

This would be possible using the Gillespie_simple_contagion framework. It's a little technical, but doable.

For quarantine, I wouldn't actually break the edges, but rather adjust the transmission rate of those edges.

https://epidemicsonnetworks.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Examples.html#non-sis-sir-processes-with-gillespie-simple-contagion

gaianoseworthy commented 4 years ago

@joelmiller Perfect! Thank you very much!