Leaps and Creeps: Hierarchical Spatial Models
Summary
Module Objectives
Module Outline
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Outline
- Readings: an overview
- Motivation: spread of a disease through a population
- Logistic growth
- Social gravity
- Geographic concentration of population
- Barriers to geographic spread
- Modeling geographic diffusion: the pieces of the puzzle
- Contagion geographic processes
- Hierarchical geographical processes
- Mean information fields
- Diffusion waves
- Applications: diffusion of cholera simulation game
- Summary
The Module
Dr. Griffith's Materials
Now that you're done:
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