A review of commonly used compartmental models in epidemiology

Abstract

In order to model an epidemic, different approaches can be adopted. Mainly, the deterministic approach and the stochastic one. Recently, a large amount of literature has been published using the two approaches. The aim of this paper is to illustrate the usual framework used for commonly adopted compartmental models in epidemiology and introduce variant analytic and numerical tools that interfere on each one of those models, as well as the general related types of existing, ongoing and future possible contributions.