| Course Title: Intermediate Topics in Statistics: 'Probabilistic Infectious Disease Modeling' |
| Start Date: 01/19/2021 End Date: 03/12/2021 |
| Term: Spring Semester 2021 |
| Description: In this course, students will learn the fundamental principles of probabilistic infectious disease models. Topics covered will include the Reed-Frost epidemic model, epidemic branching process models, and Markov chain susceptible-infected-recovered models. Specific topics may include reproduction numbers of diseases, the expected size of an epidemic, and the probability an epidemic will die out. The statistical software package R will be used to implement key models from the class on real-world epidemic data sets. |
| Distribution(s): II - Math & Sciences , TP - Topics Course |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Casey Gibson | ggibson@mtholyoke.edu |
| Dylan Shepardson (email: dshepard@mtholyoke.edu, phone: 0) may also be contacted for registration permissions and registration questions. |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 01/19/2021 - 03/12/2021 | Flex. Immersive Lecture | Monday | 09:45AM - 11:00AM | TBA | TBA | Weekly |
| 01/19/2021 - 03/12/2021 | Flex. Immersive Lecture | Tuesday and Thursday | 09:30AM - 11:15AM | Weekly | ||
| 01/19/2021 - 03/12/2021 | Flex. Immersive Lecture | Wednesday and Friday | 10:15AM - 11:15AM | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| Prereq: STAT-140. | Take previously | Required |
| Comments |
| Additional Comments |
| Course Tags | ||
| MOD0001 | MOD-1: Courses meeting in Module 1 | This course meets in Module 1. |
| MEET0004 | +MEET-4: Expects to meet 4 days per week, on average | This class is expected to meet 4 days per week, on average |
| Cross-listed Sections |
| None |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Closed | Capacity: 18 | Enrollment: 19 | Available: 0 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| Title: An Introduction to Infectious Disease Modelling Author: Emilia Vynnycky, Richard White Copyright: 2010 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780198565765 Publisher: Oxford University Press |
Required | 68.00 |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is the complete book list for this class. |
| Instructor's comments about the book list: Note that we won't go over much of it (it has diff eq sections we obviously won't use). |