Heterogeneity in epidemic models and its effect on the spread of infection

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 651-661

  Andersson, Håkan ^a   Britton, Tom ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Epidemic model; Heterogeneous population; Household population; Total size

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032264092     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021900200016302     Document Type: Article

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