Stochastic epidemics in dynamic populations: Quasi-stationarity and extinction

Journal of Mathematical Biology

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 559-580

  Andersson, Håkan ^a,b   Britton, Tom ^c  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Group Financial Risk Control   (Sweden)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Critical community size; Diffusion approximation; Persistence; Quasi stationary distribution; SIR epidemics; Stochastic fade out; Vaccination

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHILD; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATISTICS; VACCINATION;

CHILD; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; VACCINATION;

EID: 0034572046     PISSN: 03036812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002850000060     Document Type: Article

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