Questions tagged [mathematical-modeling]

This tag is used to refer to mathematical/probabilistic/statistical modeling questions, usually this tag is used to ask about questions that are related with the mathematical formalism of the model instead of the correctness of a specific model in practice.

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Suggestions for reducing the transmission rate?

What are suggestions for reducing the transmission rate of the current epidemics? In summary, my best one so far is (once we are down to the stay home rule) to discretize time, i.e., to introduce the ...
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Does every ODE comes from something in physics?

Not sure if this is appropriate to Math Overflow, but I think there's some way to make this precise, even if I'm not sure how to do it myself. Say I have a nasty ODE, nonlinear, maybe extremely ...
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Which limit to take as a key applied math decision

The Borel-Kolmogorov paradox refers to situations where non-uniqueness in the notion of conditioning on a set of measure zero leads to apparent contradictions. As a formal matter, one requires ...
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Models for graphs representing real-life networks

I am interested in basic models of graphs (stochastic or deterministic) that are offered for real-life networks (like social networks, the Internet, neuron networks). I will be thankful for answers ...
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Resultant probability distribution when taking the cosine of gaussian distributed variable

I am trying to do a measurement uncertainty calculation. I have a gaussian distributed phase angle (theta) with a mean of 0 and standard deviation of 16.6666 micro radians. The variance is the ...
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What's the name of this geometric mathematical modeling problem?

There is a right angle corner with width 1 in both directions. One wants to find the largest area shape which can pass through this corner. I know that this is a famous problem, but what is it called?
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How to study the global stability for this 3D system?

I am studying a biological system (HIV) and arrived at this simplified dynamical system: \begin{align} x_1' &= a_1 + a_2x_2 - a_1x_2 - a_4x_1 - a_5\frac{1+a_6x_3}{1+a_7x_3}x_1\\ x_2' &= a_5\...
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Time of peak of an SIR epidemic

I've learned some classical results on the peak and the attack rate of an idealized epidemic which evolves according to a SIR model $\dot{s} = -\beta\cdot i \cdot s$ $\dot{i} = +\beta\cdot i \cdot s -...
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Curves similarity metric [closed]

I am working on an optical character recognition algorithm that takes vector data (i.e. polylines) as input rather than raster picture. E.g., we have N polyline samples, and when certain polyline is ...
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Concurrency related problems in $n$ independent, parallel $M/M/1$ queues

Queueing Model: Consider $n$ independent, parallel $M/M/1$ queues with identical arrival rate $\lambda$ and service rate $\mu$. For each $M/M/1$ queue, we use the FCFS (First Come First Served) ...
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Canonical representation of the a probability distribution for Hammersley Clifford Theorem

I'm reading the following paper http://www2.stat.duke.edu/~scs/Courses/Stat376/Papers/GibbsFieldEst/BesagJRSSB1974.pdf On page 7 they give the result that $$Q(\textbf{x}) = \sum_{1 \leq i \leq n} ...
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Math behind climate modeling.

Let me start with a purely mathematical question. What are the partial differential equations used in modeling our climate? I do mean the exact mathematical description. What are the initial ...
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