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CHAOS
Volume 19, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.3247350
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [R01GM090204, R01 GM090204] Funding Source: Medline
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We consider a stochastic susceptible-exposed-infected-recovered (SIER) epidemiological model. Through the use of a normal form coordinate transform, we are able to analytically derive the stochastic center manifold along with the associated, reduced set of stochastic evolution equations. The transformation correctly projects both the dynamics and the noise onto the center manifold. Therefore, the solution of this reduced stochastic dynamical system yields excellent agreement, both in amplitude and phase, with the solution of the original stochastic system for a temporal scale that is orders of magnitude longer than the typical relaxation time. This new method allows for improved time series prediction of the number of infectious cases when modeling the spread of disease in a population. Numerical solutions of the fluctuations of the SEIR model are considered in the infinite population limit using a Langevin equation approach, as well as in a finite population simulated as a Markov process. (C) 2009 American Institute of Physics. [doi: 10.1063/1.3247350]
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