The distribution of time to extinction in subcritical branching processes: Applications to outbreaks of infectious disease

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 771-779

  Farrington, C P ^a   Grant, A D ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Branching process; Epidemic model; Extinction; Generation distribution; Maximum likelihood estimation; Power series family

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033236715     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021900200017563     Document Type: Article

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