Kermack and McKendrick Revisited: The Variable Susceptibility Model for Infectious Diseases

Japan Journal of Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 273-292

  Inaba, Hisashi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Age dependent population dynamics; Endemic threshold; Epidemic model; Kermack and McKendrick; Variable susceptibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011368148     PISSN: 09167005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03168575     Document Type: Article

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