This course covers approaches for modelling treatment of infectious disease, as well as for modelling vaccination. Building on the SIR model, you will learn how to incorporate additional compartments to represent the effects of interventions, such the effect of vaccination in reducing susceptibility. You will learn about ‘leaky’ vaccines and how to model them, as well as different types of vaccine and treatment effects. It is important to consider basic relationships between models and data, so, using the basic SIR model you have developed in course 1, you will calibrate this model to epidemic data. Performing such a calibration by hand will help you gain an understanding of how model parameters can be adjusted in order to capture real-world data. Lastly in this course, you will learn about two simple approaches to computer-based model calibration - the least-squares approach and the maximum-likelihood approach; you will perform model calibrations under each of these approaches in R.
Este curso forma parte de Programa especializado: Infectious Disease Modelling
Programa especializado: Infectious Disease ModellingImperial College LondonAcerca de este Curso
Qué aprenderás
Identify the relationship between models and real-world epidemiological data
Incorporate treatment or vaccination into an SIR model, accounting for imperfect efficacy, and for different mechanisms of action
Perform simple calibrations of an SIR model against time-series data, selecting parameters to maximise the fit of the model to the data
Recognise two simple approaches to computer-based model calibration and perform model calibrations under each of these approaches in R.
Habilidades que obtendrás
- Mathematical Model
- Infectious Diseases
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Programa - Qué aprenderás en este curso
Modelling Interventions
Confronting Models with Data - Part A
Confronting Models with Data - Part B
Confronting models with data – Part C
Reseñas
- 5 stars75,51 %
- 4 stars18,36 %
- 3 stars2,04 %
- 2 stars4,08 %
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Such a great learning experience. The course provided me with a comprehensive overview of the topics under concern. My gratitude to the instructors for creating such a valuable course.
Good content but some exercises and final quiz are designed poorly that sometimes don't even test your learning.
A great learning experience, have to struggle a lot for the quiz, But in the end it helps to get better understanding of the concept and practice.
Final quiz was tough but all in all an excellent course!
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