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Yes that's I nice way to run into logistic. Some introductory books use that as a motivating example, usually the second one. SIR is too simple to be accurate,
by srean 7y ago
Yes that's I nice way to run into logistic. Some introductory books use that as a motivating example, usually the second one. SIR is too simple to be accurate, but is ok enough to paint with broad brush strokes. Sometimes simple models are still useful as long as one does not read too much into the output.
Statistical epidemiology is quite heavily invested in stochastic differential equation. Wikipedia would hardly suffice as an academic, up to date and an exhaustive bibliography.
- graycat 7y agoSounds like the next step up would be stochastic optimal control, the field of my Ph.D. dissertation. Ah, been there, done that, got the T-shirt, and doing other things now!
- srean 7y agoHeh ! that's why I said this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22937262 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22937262 BTW you mention Prof. Bertsekas a few times, did you ever run into Pof. Tsitsiklis ? He has done some work in the area of epidemics around 2015. Mentioning just in case you knw him