The great circle epidemic model

Stochastic Processes and their Applications

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 233-268

  Ball, Frank ^a   Neal, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Branching process; Central limit theorems; Coupling; Epidemic process; Small world models; Weak convergence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041426596     PISSN: 03044149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4149(03)00074-7     Document Type: Article

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