An epidemic model with infector-dependent severity

Advances in Applied Probability

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 949-972

  Ball, Frank ^a   Britton, Tom ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Basic reproduction number; Branching process; Density dependent population process; Final size; Stochastic epidemic; Threshold behaviour; Varying severity

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; POPULATION STATISTICS; VACCINES;

BRANCHING PROCESS APPROXIMATION; DENSITY DEPENDENT POPULATION PROCESS; STOCHASTIC EPIDEMIC MODEL;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EID: 39549092111     PISSN: 00018678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/aap/1198177234     Document Type: Article

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