4 papers
The Impact of Neglecting Vaccine Unwillingness in Epidemiology Models
Glenn Ledder
With significant population fractions in many societies who refuse vaccines, it is important to reconsider how vaccination is incorporated into compartmental epidemiology models. I…
A Mathematical Model of Opinion Dynamics with Application to Vaccine Denial
Daniel Cicala, Yi Jiang, Jane HyoJin Lee +2
Public health outcomes can be heavily influenced by the landscape of public opinion; hence, it is important to understand how that landscape changes over time. For one, opinions on…
Incorporating changeable attitudes toward vaccination into an SIR infectious disease model
Yi Jiang, Kristin M. Kurianski, Jane HyoJin Lee +3
We develop a mechanistic model that classifies individuals both in terms of epidemiological status (SIR) and vaccination attitude (willing or unwilling), with the goal of discoveri…
Using asymptotics for efficient stability determination in epidemiological models
Glenn Ledder
Analytical stability calculation is done to prove stability properties for systems with parameters that do not have explicit values. For systems with three components, the usual me…