Limit theorems for the total size of a spatial epidemic

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 698-710

  Andersson, Håkan ^a   Djehiche, Boualem ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Coupling; Epidemic process; Hilbert space; Martingale; Total size

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES;

HILBERT SPACE; SPATIAL EPIDEMICS;

EPIDEMIOLOGY;

EID: 0031222111     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021900200101354     Document Type: Article

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