Compound poisson limits for household epidemics

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 334-345

  Neal, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Compound Poisson convergence; Epidemic model; Household

Indexed keywords

EID: 23944460027     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/jap/1118777174     Document Type: Article

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