SIR
Simulation of Disease Propagation


SIR, a MATLAB program which simulates the spread of a disease using the SIR (Susceptible/Infected/Recovered) model.

We consider the evolution of a disease epidemic in a population of N people.

We assume that the patients can be classified as Susceptible, Infected or Recovering, with the properties that:

Licensing:

The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the GNU LGPL license.

Languages:

SIR is available in a MATLAB version.

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Reference:

  1. Dianne OLeary,
    Models of Infection: Person to Person,
    Computing in Science and Engineering,
    Volume 6, Number 1, January/February 2004.
  2. Dianne OLeary,
    Scientific Computing with Case Studies,
    SIAM, 2008,
    ISBN13: 978-0-898716-66-5,
    LC: QA401.O44.

Source Code:


Last revised on 16 March 2019.