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I am not a biologist by profession, but I am attempting to implement a simple SIR model from the following paper. The paper assumes the following constants are known:

rc = growth rate of susceptible group S

k = carrying capacity of susceptible group in absence of infection

alpha = max value of per capita reduction rate of S due to I

a = half saturation constant

gamma = natural recovery rate from infection

delta = death rate of recovered population

I found some coronavirus data from the following source, and I plotted the Italy data in particular:

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  • Can I calculate the constants above from this type of data?
  • Is it a good assumptions for these "variables" to be constant?

Here is my attempt of the model with the constants given in the paper

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  • $\begingroup$ Welcome to Biology.SE! Please take the tour and then go through the help pages starting with How to Ask questions effectively on this site. In particular, this question seems like it might be a better fit for Bioinformatics. Thanks! 😊 $\endgroup$ – tyersome Mar 19 '20 at 22:20
  • $\begingroup$ @tyersome Are you an administrator- can you migrate it please? Thank you $\endgroup$ – Edv Beq Mar 21 '20 at 0:12
  • $\begingroup$ Sorry, I'm not and so don't have that level of access. Is there some reason you can't copy this and post on that site (and then delete from this site)? $\endgroup$ – tyersome Mar 21 '20 at 1:02
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    $\begingroup$ I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it appears to be a question about mathematical modeling rather than biology. $\endgroup$ – tyersome Mar 23 '20 at 18:50

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