On the distribution of the size of an epidemic in a non-Markovian model

Theory of Probability and its Applications

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 730-740

  Startsev, A N ^a  

^a S YU YUNUSOV INSTITUTE OF THE CHEMISTRY OF PLANT SUBSTANCES   (Uzbekistan)

Author keywords

Distribution of the size of an epidemic; Limit theorems; Non Markovian models; Order statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039333695     PISSN: 0040585X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0040585X97975721     Document Type: Article

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