Individual versus cluster recoveries within a spatially structured population

Annals of Applied Probability

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 403-422

  Belhadji, L ^a   Lanchier, N ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster recovery; Contact process; Epidemic models; Individual recovery; Random walk; Rescaling argument; Richardson's model

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645666720     PISSN: 10505164     EISSN: 10505164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/105051605000000764     Document Type: Article

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