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| The various models and reference data included in STEM are provided |
| as examples of how users can create and define their own models and data. While effort was/is |
| made to ensure the data reflects information available today in the public domain, we do not represent or guarantee the accuracy |
| of data or of the original sources including populations, area, population densities, geographic information (precise latitudes and longitudes, etc). In |
| some cases estimations were used to provide approximations for population densities where no public data could be found. The mathematical |
| models included in STEM are based on standard textbook models like, for example, the SIR or SEIR models. |
| Users are free to adjust the rate constants in these mathematical |
| models to create their own approximations or models of infectious disease. In |
| addition to changing rate constants, |
| advanced users will want to code their own mathematics extending |
| the simple base models. We do not represented or guarantee that the simple base |
| models included in STEM are |
| "optimal" for any particular infectious disease and creation of a |
| "good" model for real disease is part of modern state of the art epidemiological |
| research. STEM is provided as |
| a Framework to support this research in which users may create and |
| exchange their own models based on their own reference data. We do claim to implemented "best" or even "accurate" |
| models for any particular disease. |
| Over time we will build into STEM tools that will allow users to do |
| their own validation studies of various models. |
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