FRED (A Framework for Reconstructing Epidemic Dynamics): an open-source software system for modeling infectious diseases and control strategies using census-based populations
BMC Public Health2013Vol. 13(1), pp. 940–940
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John J. Grefenstette, Shawn T. Brown, Roni Rosenfeld, Jay V. DePasse, N. T. B. Stone, Phillip Cooley, William D. Wheaton, Alona Fyshe, David Galloway, Anuroop Sriram, Hasan Güçlü, Thomas Abraham, Donald S. Burke
Abstract
State and county public health planners can use FRED to explore the effects of possible influenza epidemics in specific geographic regions of interest and to help evaluate the effect of interventions such as vaccination programs and school closure policies. FRED is available under a free open source license in order to contribute to the development of better modeling tools and to encourage open discussion of modeling tools being used to evaluate public health policies. We also welcome participation by other researchers in the further development of FRED.
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