In order to model an epidemic, different approaches can be adopted. Mainly, the deterministic approach and the stochastic one. Recently, a huge 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.
A review of commonly used compartmental models in epidemiology