Critical scaling for the SIS stochastic epidemic

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 892-898

  Dolgoarshinnykh, R G ^a   Lalley, Steven P ^b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Feller diffusion; Ornstein Uhlenbeck process; SIR; SIS; Stochastic epidemic model

Indexed keywords

EID: 34047113875     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/jap/1158784956     Document Type: Article

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