Student Learning Outcomes
At the end of this lab, a successful learner should be able to…
- Define a “model” and describe some of the ways disease models can
help us gain insight
- Define and discriminate between state variables and parameters
- Explain how maximum likelihood approaches can be used to fit disease
models
- Use functions from the
bbmle package to fit epidemic
models to real data, and then analyze resultant parameter
estimates.
Pre-Lab Materials
None: No quiz today!