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Numerical considerations about the SIR epidemic model with infection age

Populations and Evolution 2020-06-29 v1

Abstract

We analyse the infection-age-dependent SIR model from a numerical point of view. First, we present an algorithm for calculating the solution the infection-age-structured SIR model without demography of the background host. Second, we examine how and under which conditions, the conventional SIR model (without infection-age) serves as a practical approximation to the infection-age SIR model. Special emphasis is given on the effective reproduction number.

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@article{arxiv.2006.14861,
  title  = {Numerical considerations about the SIR epidemic model with infection age},
  author = {Ralph Brinks and Annika Hoyer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.14861},
  year   = {2020}
}

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10 pages, 3 figures