Mean-field-type equations for spread of epidemics: The `small world' model

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 274, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 355-360

  Kleczkowski, Adam ^a   Grenfell, Bryan T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATA THEORY; CORRELATION METHODS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

EPIDEMICS;

DISEASES;

EID: 0033345706     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(99)00393-3     Document Type: Article

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