A general model for stochastic SIR epidemics with two levels of mixing

Mathematical Biosciences

Volumn 180, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 73-102

  Ball, Frank ^a   Neal, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Households; Local and global contacts; Overlapping groups; SIR epidemics; Small world models; Threshold behaviour

Indexed keywords

POPULATION STATISTICS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

GLOBAL CONTRACTS;

EPIDEMIOLOGY;

BIOMETRY; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MODEL;

DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; POPULATION MODEL; REVIEW; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; CONTACT TRACING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 0036846225     PISSN: 00255564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-5564(02)00125-6     Document Type: Article

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