TY - JOUR Y1 - 2023/// A1 - Salimipour, A. A1 - Mehraban, T. A1 - Ghafour, H.S. A1 - Arshad, N.I. A1 - Ebadi, M.J. JF - Operations Research Perspectives UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85145361820&doi=10.1016%2fj.orp.2022.100265&partnerID=40&md5=8531bbb66a97f9a617eed7a53bb281c0 VL - 10 AV - none N1 - cited By 7 N2 - In this article, we study the spread pattern of the epidemic of COVID-19 disease from the point of view of mathematical modeling. Considering that this virus follows the basic rules of epidemic disease transmission, we use the SIR model to show the spread process of this disease in Iran. Then we estimate the primary reproduction number (R0) of COVID-19 in Iran by matching an epidemic model with the data of reported cases. © 2022 ID - scholars19413 TI - SIR model for the spread of COVID-19: A case study ER -