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Part 2 of a series of videos on a stochastic process approach to model the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) as opposed to the compartmental deterministic SIR model. This model is generally known as branching process, but this video only focuses on the simplest type, called Bienaymé-Galton-Watson (BGW) process. This video will explore how we can extract the extinction probability (probability that coronavirus will eventually get eradicated) from the BGW process using the cobwebbing technique. Although it is not a rigorous approach, it is a very nice visual way to see what's happening. We then, not too surprisingly, come up with the concept of basic reproduction number, a concept that is seen in both the BGW model and the SIR model.

This video will involve concepts like distribution, independence, expected value, generating function, and the cobwebbing techniques to visualise iteration processes and so on, but a basic understanding of the concept of probabilities will be good, and basic understanding on differentiation (definition as slope of a function, power rule and linearity of the differential operator) will be required.

The next video on the limitations / improvement and the historical context of the BGW process should be released in a couple of days, because they are already done.

REFERENCES / SOURCES (which I will explain in much more detail in later videos that I promised, but if you are impatient, you can read these):

(1) Branching Processes: Their Role in Epidemiology [basis / limitations / improvement of the model]
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2872325/pdf/ijerph-07-01186.pdf

(2) Branching Processes Since 1873 [historical context of the Bienaymé-Galton-Watson process]
londmathsoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1112/jlms/s1-41.1.385

(3) The Genealogy of Genealogy Branching Processes before (and after) 1873 [historical context of the Bienaymé-Galton-Watson process]
londmathsoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1112/blms/7.3.225

(4) The Educational Times (March 1873) [Galton's original famous Problem 4001; historical context of the Bienaymé-Galton-Watson process]
web.archive.org/web/20170123114453/http://ioearc.da.ulcc.ac.uk/9344/1/Educational%20Times%20Vol%2025%20Iss%20143.PDF

(5) The Educational Times (August 1873) [Watson's (brief) answer to the Problem 4001; historical context of the Bienaymé-Galton-Watson process]
web.archive.org/web/20161201212518/http://ioearc.da.ulcc.ac.uk/9309/1/Educational%20Times%20Vol%2026%20Iss%20148.PDF

(6) On the probability of extinction of families [Watson's paper / more detailed albeit partially incorrect answer to the Problem 4001; historical context of the Bienaymé-Galton-Watson process]
jstor.org/stable/pdf/2841222.pdf

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