On the algebraic structure in markovian processes of death and epidemic types

Advances in Applied Probability

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 742-757

  Picard, Philippe ^a,b,c   Lefevre, Claude ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Abel Gontcharoff pseudopolynomials with two indices; Abelian expansions; Bivariate death process; Exact temporal distribution; Markovian SIR epidemic models; Martingales

Indexed keywords

EID: 17744396915     PISSN: 00018678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0001867800009393     Document Type: Article

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