An SIS infection model incorporating media coverage

Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1323-1334

  Cui, Jing An ^a   Tao, Xin ^a   Zhu, Huaiping ^b  

^a NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Basic reproduction number; Global stability; Media coverage; SIS infection model

Indexed keywords

EID: 58049150240     PISSN: 00357596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1216/RMJ-2008-38-5-1323     Document Type: Conference Paper

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