Dancin' at the Zombie Zoo

[dethtonge]

Detailed mathematical modeling of a zombie attack:

http://www.mathstat.uottawa.ca/~rsmith/Zombies.pdf

From a Canadian university, of course.

Be sure to check out the references section at the end.

Comments

[recalcitrant_lj]

That is awesome. Stealing this to show a math friend of mine.

You win the internet today.

[jeffercine]

What he said. That's awesome and must share.

[fgmr]

Nice!
The key difference between the models presented here and other models of infectious disease is that the dead can come back to life. Clearly, this is an unlikely scenario if taken literally, but possible real-life applications may include allegiance to political parties, [....]

[drangnon]

I need to repost this

[strontium90]

That's a great read as statistical analysis papers go :)