The distribution of general final state random variables for stochastic epidemic models

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 473-491

  Ball, Frank ^a   O'Neill, Philip ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epidemic; Final severity; Final size; Gontcharoff polynomial

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033235817     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021900200017265     Document Type: Article

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