Approximating the Reed-Frost epidemic process

Stochastic Processes and their Applications

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 173-197

  Barbour, A D ^a   Utev, Sergey ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asymptotic relative closeness; Branching process approximation; Final size distribution; Local limit approximation; Reed Frost epidemic process; Total variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 4544345134     PISSN: 03044149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spa.2004.03.013     Document Type: Article

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