📈 The Chowell Generalized Growth Model: Capturing Sub-Exponential Epidemic Scaling 📉
🏗️ Conceptual Overview During the early phase of an epidemic, the classical assumption of purely exponential growth frequently fails to describe observed transmission patterns. Social distancing, spatial clustering, contact heterogeneity, and early behavioral responses can all slow epidemic expansion well before susceptible depletion becomes relevant. The Chowell Generalized Growth Model (GGM) is a phenomenological epidemic … Read more