A Novel Technique to Estimate Biological Parameters in an Epidemiology Problem

Benedito, Antone dos Santos [UNESP]; Pio dos Santos, Fernando Luiz [UNESP]; Rojas, I; Joya, G.; Catala, A.

A Novel Technique to Estimate Biological Parameters in an Epidemiology Problem

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WOS000443108200010.pdf (219.04 KB)

Data

2017-01-01

Autores

Benedito, Antone dos Santos

Pio dos Santos, Fernando Luiz

Rojas, I

Joya, G.

Catala, A.

Editor

Springer

Tipo

Trabalho apresentado em evento

Direito de acesso

Acesso aberto

Resumo

In this paper, we describe a study of a parameter estimation technique to estimate a set of unknown biological parameters of a nonlinear dynamic model of dengue. We also explore a Levenberg-Marquardt (LM) algorithm to minimize the cost function. A classical mathematical model describes the dynamics of mosquitoes in water and winged phases, where the data are available. The main interest is to fit the model to the data taking into account the parameters estimated. Numerical simulations were performed and results showed the robustness of LM in estimating the important parameters in the dengue disease problem.