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Calibration of individual-based models to epidemiological data: A systematic review

Abstract

Individual-based models (IBMs) informing public health policy should be calibrated to data and provide estimates of uncertainty. Two main components of model-calibration methods are the parameter-search strategy and the goodness-of-fit (GOF) measure; many options exist for each of these. This review provides an overview of calibration methods used in IBMs modelling infectious disease spread. We identified articles on PubMed employing …

Authors

Hazelbag CM; Dushoff J; Dominic EM; Mthombothi ZE; Delva W

Journal

PLOS Computational Biology, Vol. 16, No. 5,

Publisher

Public Library of Science (PLoS)

DOI

10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007893

ISSN

1553-734X