Disease Lab

Authors

Jim Powell, Utah State University
Matt Lewis, Utah State University

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Description

Students use transparencies and dry erase markers to simulate the spread of a zombie virus among a fixed population. Students are then challenged to create their own "disease" and develop an ODE model for the resulting data. From this exercise students gain greater understanding of population and SIR models, disease dynamics, parameter estimation and compartment modeling.

Publication Date

2016

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Comments

For additional details and information see the peer reviewed article: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10511970.2016.1162236

Recommended Citation

Powell, Jim and Lewis, Matt, "Disease Lab" (2016). Laboratory Experiences in Mathematical Biology. 1.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/lemb/1