Partially observed branching processes for stochastic epidemics

Journal of Mathematical Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 645-668

  Panaretos, Victor M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional inference; Extinction explosion; Family name problem; Joint Markov property; Partial observation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; PROBABILITY; STATISTICS;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 34248353028     PISSN: 03036812     EISSN: 14321416     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00285-006-0062-6     Document Type: Article

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