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Mathematical epidemiology

a model splitting a population into susceptible, infected and recovered groups to describe how an epidemic rises and burns out.

In mathematical epidemiology, SIR model refers to a model splitting a population into susceptible, infected and recovered groups to describe how an epidemic rises and burns out. This meaning comes from Kermack (1927) in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing Papers of a Mathematical and Physical Character.[1]

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  1. Kermack, W. O., & McKendrick, A. G. (1927). A contribution to the mathematical theory of epidemics. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing Papers of a Mathematical and Physical Character, 115(772), 700-721. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1927.0118

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