03-05-2015, 04:03 PM
testcase wrote:
Studying "Zombies"?????
I think there would be more productive uses for research dollars.
Did you read the (peer reviewed) journal article, or even the news report? They didn't 'study zombies,' which are fictional.
Researchers wrote:
Zombies offer a fun framework for introducing many modern concepts from epidemiology and critical phenomenon. We have described and analyzed various zombie models, from one describing deterministic dynamics in a well-mixed system to a full scale US epidemic. We have given a closed form analytical solution to the well-mixed dynamic differential equation model. We compared the stochastic dynamics to a comparable density-dependent SIR model. We investigated the critical phenomenon of the single person per site two-dimensional square lattice zombie model and demonstrated it is in the percolation universality class. We ran full scale simulations of a zombie epidemic, incorporating each human in the continental United States, and discussed the geographical implications for survival.