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The SIR Model for Spread of Disease

David Smith and Lang Moore, Duke University

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Purposes: To develop the SIR Model for the spread of an infectious disease, including the concepts of contact number and herd immunity; to develop a version of Euler's Method for solving a system of differential equations

Prerequisites: An understanding of Euler's Method for solving a single differential equation. See Part 4 of Introduction to Differential Equations.

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