Individual-based stochastic models are one of the modelling approaches with a growing use in public health during these last years. They represent an appropriate and powerful tool for the simulation of dynamics involving individual characteristics and behaviours of populations.
This course will present in more details individual-based models and related simulations schemes introduced in the minor "Mathematical and computational modelling", as well as methodological points and interpretation of results that these kinds of models raise. The course will also address different approaches for approximations of stochastic dynamics. A particular attention will be paid to numerical optimisation methods used for parameter estimation.

Workload and ECTS

Class workload	Total workload	ECTS
30	90	3