Approximation of epidemics by inhomogeneous birth-and-death processes

Stochastic Processes and their Applications

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 233-245

  Clancy, Damian ^a   O'Neill, Philip ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Birth and death process; Coupling; Epidemic; General branching process; Inhomogeneous birth and death process; Primary 92D30; Secondary 60K99

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039500758     PISSN: 03044149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4149(97)00092-6     Document Type: Article

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