Part 3 - Customising the outbreak

In this third part of the tutorial you will:

• Understand the purpose of metawards.iterators.iterate_default

• Learn how to use different iterators on different days, so that the program can model weekends

• Create a custom iterator to represent a lockdown

• Learn how to trigger a custom iterator to start at a specific date

• Create an adjustable variable so that you can model lockdowns with different levels of effectiveness

• Setup models in which lockdowns are ended, and then explore what happens next

• Create models in which lockdowns can be stopped and started in response to changing conditions

• How a day is modelled
  • Work and play
  • What is a normal day?
• Where is the weekend?
  • Creating the weekend
  • Printing debug output
  • Advancing the outbreak
  • Changing iterators with time
  • Changing iterators with stage
• Custom advance functions
  • Creating advance_lockdown
  • Scaling the infection rate
• Responding to changing conditions
  • Releasing lockdown
  • Relaxing, not removing lockdown
  • Returning to work
• Custom variables
  • User variables
  • Reading user variables in custom iterators
  • Scanning custom variables
• Scanning lockdown
  • Running on a cluster
• Alternative lockdowns
  • Force of infection
  • Metapopulation movements
  • Rates of infection
  • Enacting lockdown
• Local lockdowns
  • Limiting movement at a local level
  • Scaling FOI at a local level
  • Reading and writing local parameters
  • Custom ward-local parameters