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Imperial College London

Interventions and Calibration

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.

Status: Simulations
Status: Mathematical Modeling
IntermediateCourse24 hours

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RT

Reviewed May 11, 2021

This builds on excellently from the first course. The transition is seamless, and the final modelling project was super fun.

RA

Reviewed Jun 22, 2020

Excellent course videos, content, assignment quiz. Received very good support from instructor and other members/ learners on discussion forum.

AL

Reviewed Aug 7, 2020

Excellent course, good information and excellent instructors.

AK

Reviewed Jun 28, 2020

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.

VJ

Reviewed Aug 5, 2020

Final quiz was tough but all in all an excellent course!

JP

Reviewed Oct 12, 2020

Good content but some exercises and final quiz are designed poorly that sometimes don't even test your learning.

BT

Reviewed Jan 7, 2023

Practically useful course and I have already applied it in my field work

B

Reviewed Dec 24, 2021

Very useful course.. I have learnt many things useful for my career

GC

Reviewed Jun 23, 2020

Excellent course led from first course right into this course perfectly. Level is perfect assignments perfect. Already told 5 people about it.

MM

Reviewed Aug 8, 2021

Stuck in last quiz for many hours, dig in many forums. Finally learn in-depth how and why model structure be like that. 5/5 would loss in thought again.

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