Mass action law versus local contagion dynamics. a mean-field statistical approach with application to the theory of epidemics

Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General

Volumn 29, Issue 16, 1996, Pages 4895-4913

  Vlad, Marcel Ovidiu ^a,c,d   Schönfisch, Birgitt ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c ACADEMY OF ROMANIAN SCIENTISTS   (Romania)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 21344463963     PISSN: 03054470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0305-4470/29/16/015     Document Type: Article

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