A school-oriented, age-structured epidemic model

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1870-1887

  Andreasen, Viggo ^a   Frommelt, Thomas ^a  

^a ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Age structure; Closed epidemic; Discrete map; Epidemic model; Seasonal forcing

Indexed keywords

CHAOS THEORY; DISCRETE TIME CONTROL SYSTEMS; DISEASES; IMMUNOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STUDENTS;

AGE-STRUCTURE; CLOSED EPIDEMIC; DISCRETE MAPS; EPIDEMIC MODELS; SEASONAL FORCING;

EPIDEMIOLOGY;

EID: 29144484745     PISSN: 00361399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/040610684     Document Type: Article

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