The final size of a nearly critical epidemic, and the first passage time of a wiener process to a parabolic barrier

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 671-682

  Martin Löf, Anders ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Airy functions; Diffusion approximation; Epidemic model; Nearly critical epidemic; Parabolic barrier; Passage time; Size of epidemic; Spectral theory; Wiener process

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032259304     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021900200016326     Document Type: Article

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