Epidemics with two levels of mixing

Annals of Applied Probability

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 46-89

  Ball, Frank ^a   Mollison, Denis ^b   Scalia Tomba, Gianpaolo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Asymptotic distribution; Branching processes; Embedding; Epidemic; Estimation; Final outcome; Gontcharoff polynomials; Household; R0; Random graphs; Reed Frost; Threshold parameters; Vaccination

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031285152     PISSN: 10505164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aoap/1034625252     Document Type: Article

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