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Failure of monotonicity in epidemic models

Populations and Evolution 2020-05-01 v1

Abstract

We discuss the failure of monotonicity properties for even simple compartmental epidemic models, for the case where transmission rates are non-constant. We also identify a special case in which monotonicity holds.

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@article{arxiv.2004.15018,
  title  = {Failure of monotonicity in epidemic models},
  author = {Maria Chikina and Wesley Pegden},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.15018},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

7 pages, 4 figures. Code is available in arXiv'd files