Novel bivariate moment-closure approximations

Mathematical Biosciences

Volumn 208, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 621-643

  Krishnarajah, Isthrinayagy ^a   Marion, Glenn ^a   Gibson, Gavin ^b  

^a BIOMATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Beta binomial; Bivariate SIS; Log normal; Markov process; Mixture distribution; Moment closure; Zero modified distribution

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

BETA-BINOMIAL; BIVARIATE SIS; MIXTURE DISTRIBUTION; ZERO-MODIFIED DISTRIBUTION;

APPROXIMATION THEORY;

MARKOV CHAIN; MODELING; POPULATION SIZE; STOCHASTICITY;

ARTICLE; BIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MORTALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROBABILITY; SIMULATION; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

DISEASE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INFECTION; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 34547125135     PISSN: 00255564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mbs.2006.12.002     Document Type: Article

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