Relatedness of the Incidence Decay with Exponential Adjustment (IDEA) Model, "Farr's Law" and Compartmental Difference Equation SIR Models

Mauricio Santillana, Ashleigh Tuite, Tahmina Nasserie +5

Mathematical models are often regarded as recent innovations in the description and analysis of infectious disease outbreaks and epidemics, but simple models have been in use for p…