We did the right thing: an intervention analysis approach to modeling intervened SARS propagation in Singapore.

• Main Authors: Han, Bin Han, Tze-Yun LEONG
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2004
• Subjects: Biological model; Communicable disease; Disease transmission; Epidemic; Human; Infection control; Severe acute respiratory syndrome; Singapore; Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/3054
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In this paper, we adopt the Intervention Analysis approach to model an intervened natural process, i.e., propagation of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Singapore, which is affected not only by its own evolutionary history but also by the control measures taken. Using this model, the...