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Analysis of SIR epidemic models with sociological phenomenon

Dynamical Systems 2022-07-26 v2 Physics and Society Populations and Evolution

Abstract

We propose two SIR models which incorporate sociological behavior of groups of individuals. It is these differences in behaviors which impose different infection rates on the individual susceptible populations, rather than biological differences. We compute the basic reproduction number for each model, as well as analyze the sensitivity of R0R_0 to changes in sociological parameter values.

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@article{arxiv.2207.08999,
  title  = {Analysis of SIR epidemic models with sociological phenomenon},
  author = {Robert F. Allen and Katherine Heller and Matthew A. Pons},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.08999},
  year   = {2022}
}