Sensitivity Analysis in a Dengue Epidemiological Model
arXiv:1307.0202 · doi:10.1155/2013/721406
Abstract
Epidemiological models may give some basic guidelines for public health practitioners, allowing to analyze issues that can influence the strategies to prevent and fight a disease. To be used in decision-making, however, a mathematical model must be carefully parameterized and validated with epidemiological and entomological data. Here a SIR (S for susceptible, I for infectious, R for recovered individuals) and ASI (A for the aquatic phase of the mosquito, S for susceptible and I for infectious mosquitoes) epidemiological model describing a dengue disease is presented, as well as the associated basic reproduction number. A sensitivity analysis of the epidemiological model is performed in order to determine the relative importance of the model parameters to the disease transmission.
Submitted 14-June-2013; accepted, after a minor revision, 30-June-2013; Conference Papers in Mathematics, Volume 2013, Article ID 721406, http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/721406