Interventions and Calibration
Completed by Amanda Kay Irish
October 1, 2025
24 hours (approximately)
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What you will learn
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.
Skills you will gain
- Category: Simulations
- Category: Infectious Diseases
- Category: Data Modeling
- Category: Mathematical Modeling
- Category: Probability Distribution
- Category: Statistical Methods
- Category: Model Optimization
- Category: Regression Analysis
- Category: Model Evaluation
- Category: Public Health and Disease Prevention
- Category: Epidemiology
- Category: Public Health
