Some properties of a simple stochastic epidemic model of SIR type

Mathematical Biosciences

Volumn 208, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 76-97

  Tuckwell, Henry C ^a   Williams, Ruth J ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICS IN THE SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemic model; SIR

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS;

BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; DISEASED STATES; EPIDEMIC MODELS;

EPIDEMIOLOGY;

DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; INFECTIVITY; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION SIZE; STOCHASTICITY;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; DIFFUSION; EPIDEMIC; POPULATION SIZE; PROBABILITY; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROBABILITY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 34249301320     PISSN: 00255564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mbs.2006.09.018     Document Type: Article

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