Parameter estimation in the SIR model from early infections
Information Theory
2020-08-11 v1 math.IT
Probability
Statistics Theory
Statistics Theory
Abstract
A standard model for epidemics is the SIR model on a graph. We introduce a simple algorithm that uses the early infection times from a sample path of the SIR model to estimate the parameters this model, and we provide a performance guarantee in the setting of locally tree-like graphs.
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@article{arxiv.2008.04286,
title = {Parameter estimation in the SIR model from early infections},
author = {Charles Clum and Dustin G. Mixon},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.04286},
year = {2020}
}