This project was written by the authors with the assistance of Jer-Chin Chuang. It is a revision of a module, The Spread of AIDS, that appeared in the Connected Curriculum Project web site in 2002.
The purposes of this project are:
To study the growth pattern of a given set of data
To derive and check a model formula for the observed growth pattern.
Students should be familiar with functions defined by data and with logarithmic plotting before they work on this project.