MTBI 2015 summer lectures

[In these modules, students will become familiar with basic concepts that will enable them to fit the parameters of a mathematical model, such that the model gives a good description of a data set.  Sources of data useful to mathematical epidemiology will be discussed, including online sources of data, and how to extract data sources from the literature using programs like DataThief.

Goodness-of-fit statistics will be discussed, as will computational methods for finding model parameters that optimize the goodness-of-fit statistic.  In particular, in the examples we will focus on fitting the parameters of compartmental models of disease dynamics to epidemic data.

In passing along the way, we will discuss how to do literature searches, how to build an annotated bibliography in bibtex, how to come up with a solid research question, how to organize your work, and how to write a good research paper (essentially, many of the skills needed to excel at research!)]

Part I

Homework #1

 Part II

Homework #2

 

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