Inference on a stochastic SIR model including growth curves Albano, Giuseppina Giorno, Virginia Pérez Romero, Gema Torres Ruiz, Francisco De Asís Euler-Maruyama scheme Growth curves Inference Newton method Quasi maximum likelihood estimation A Susceptible-Infected-Removed stochastic model is presented, in which the stochasticity is introduced through two independent Brownian motions in the dynamics of the Susceptible and Infected populations. To account for the natural evolution of the Susceptible population, a growth function is considered in which size is influenced by the birth and death of individuals. Inference for such a model is addressed by means of a Quasi Maximum Likelihood Estimation (QMLE) method. The resulting nonlinear system can be numerically solved by iterative procedures. A technique to obtain the initial solutions usually required by such methods is also provided. Finally, simulation studies are performed for three well-known growth functions, namely Gompertz, Logistic and Bertalanffy curves. The performance of the initial estimates of the involved parameters is assessed, and the goodness of the proposed methodology is evaluated. 2025-07-23T10:51:32Z 2025-07-23T10:51:32Z 2025-06-16 journal article Albano, G., Giorno, V., Pérez-Romero, G., & Torres-Ruiz, F. de A. (2025). Inference on a stochastic SIR model including growth curves. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 212(108231), 108231. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csda.2025.108231 https://hdl.handle.net/10481/105591 10.1016/j.csda.2025.108231 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ open access Atribución 4.0 Internacional Elsevier