The role of stochasticity and heterogeneity with process noise

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What do you mean by testing and how to define the fewest additional compartments. Jair also mentioned there is a trend in epidemiology of increasing attention to CTMC (discrete states) SDE (continuous states). However, the term demographic noise and process noise is not used.

Comparing disaggregated DE models to AB models may be useful in designing stochastic compartment models that capture heterogeneity and network effects using the fewest additional compartments, if the network structure is known and stable. 3 Testing this proposal is beyond the scope of this paper.