A threshold limit theorem for the stochastic logistic epidemic

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 662-670

  Andersson, Håkan ^a   Djehiche, Boualem ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Birth and death process; Coupling; Entropy; Epidemic process; Time to extinction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032268351     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021900200016314     Document Type: Article

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