Some majorization orderings of heterogeneity in a class of epidemics

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 84-93

  Tong, Y L ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carrier borne model; Heterogeneity in epidemics; Majorization inequalities

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; VECTORS;

CARRIER BORNE MODEL; EPIDEMIC; HETEROGENEITY IN EPIDEMIC; MAJORIZATION INEQUALITY;

PROBABILITY;

EID: 0031282915     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021900200100725     Document Type: Article

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