--- tags: Finished Experiments --- # Experiment 4: Population Size ## Description In this experiment we compared 4 different population sizes (1k, 2k, 5k, 10k) with an unmitigated epidemic to determine whether there was a significant difference in disease propogation. We start the simulation with 1% of the population initially infected, and run it for 30 days. ## Pareto Plot ![](https://i.imgur.com/JY78uhB.png) ## Analysis / Outcome 1k population appears to have a higher amount of noise than larger population sizes, but the other three values appear to cluster tightly together within .2%. This indicates that population size does not have a strong effect on the proportion of the population infected after 30 days. That's a good thing and as we expected!