Leaps and Creeps: Hierarchical Spatial Models

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  1. Readings: an overview
  2. Motivation: spread of a disease through a population
    1. Logistic growth
    2. Social gravity
    3. Geographic concentration of population
    4. Barriers to geographic spread
  3. Modeling geographic diffusion: the pieces of the puzzle
    1. Contagion geographic processes
    2. Hierarchical geographical processes
    3. Mean information fields
  4. Diffusion waves
  5. Applications: diffusion of cholera simulation game
  6. Summary

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