Modelado Matemático de Zombis, una presentación divertida de modelos epidemiológicos (reseña)

The book edited by Robert Smith in 2014, called “Mathematical Modeling of Zombies”, is presented, which performs an epidemiological analysis comparing the effect of zombies and vampires as disease spreading agents. Based on that hypothetical case; presents an introduction to statistical inference, agent-based modeling, swarms of biological organisms, diffusion techniques, evolutionary linear models, fuzzy logic decision-making, statistical regression methods, and social media; among other mathematical models. For this review we will focus on the chapter “The Undead: A Plague on Humanity or a Powerful New Tool for Epidemiological Research” written by Jane M. Heffernan and Derek J. Wilson. This chapter deals with two different situations: epidemic diseases and endemic diseases, the difference being that the first refers to an occasional condition, while the other consists of a permanent condition with which it is time to live. It will be treated with the SIR disease propagation model, whose differential equations will be solved with the help of the free software GNU Octave.