| Keywords and phrases: compartmental models, coronavirus, Hawkes models, model evaluation, point process models, self-exciting point process models.
Received: February 23, 2021; Accepted: April 1, 2021; Published: February 18, 2022
How to cite this article: Conor Kresin, Frederic Paik Schoenberg and George Mohler, Comparison of the Hawkes and SEIR models for the spread of COVID-19, Advances and Applications in Statistics 74 (2022), 83-106. DOI: 10.17654/0972361722019
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