epipack: An infectious disease modeling package for Python
Benjamin F. Maier · The Journal of Open Source Software · 2021
Analyzing the spread of infectious diseases by means of compartmental mathematical models has been an active area of research for almost a century (Anderson & May, 2010;Keeling & Rohani, 2011;Kermack & McKendrick, 1991).Since the emergence of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic in early 2020, the field has seen yet another considerable boost in interest.Researchers have since been working on a large number of different models that are used to forecast case numbers, to analyze the implications of different contact structures between individual people, or to discuss the influence of various mitigation and containment strategies, to only name a few applications (Estrada, 2020).