Dynamical response of multi-patch, flux-based models to the input of infected people: Epidemic response to initiated events

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 372, Issue 30, 2008, Pages 5017-5025

  Rho, Young Ah ^a   Liebovitch, Larry S ^a   Schwartz, Ira B ^b  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Annual driving; Computer modeling and simulation; Diseases; Epidemic models; Flux based multi patch models; Ordinary differential equations; Reproductive rate; Spatial heterogeneity; Transient time

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

ANNUAL DRIVING; COMPUTER MODELING AND SIMULATION; EPIDEMIC MODELS; PATCH MODELS; REPRODUCTIVE RATES; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY; TRANSIENT TIME;

EPIDEMIOLOGY;

EID: 46649121839     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physleta.2008.05.065     Document Type: Article

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