Chalmers Conferences, 9th European Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology

Message passing and moment closure for Susceptible-Infectious-Removed (SIR) epidemic dynamics on networks
Kieran Sharkey

Last modified: 2014-06-09

Abstract


I will consider SIR dynamics on finite static contact networks. After giving a brief overview of the moment closure representation and the message passing representation of Karrer and Newman, I will discuss the relationship between the two and their relative merits.