A useful relationship between epidemiology and queueing theory: The distribution of the number of infectives at the moment of the first detection

Mathematical Biosciences

Volumn 219, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 15-22

  Trapman, Pieter ^a,b   Bootsma, Martinus Christoffel Jozef ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Branching processes; Detection; Epidemic; Infectious diseases; Queueing theory

Indexed keywords

BIRTH-DEATH PROCESS; BRANCHING PROCESSES; DETECTION; EPIDEMIC; INFECTIOUS DISEASES; PER CAPITA RATES; PROCESSOR SHARING; QUEUEING PROCESS; SIR EPIDEMIC MODELS;

DISEASES; GAME THEORY; OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

QUEUEING THEORY;

DETECTION METHOD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; EPIDEMIC; FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; SWINE DISEASE; THEORY CONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSS INFECTION; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; MARKOV CHAINS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RISK REDUCTION BEHAVIOR; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; SYSTEMS THEORY;

EID: 64749102567     PISSN: 00255564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mbs.2009.02.001     Document Type: Article

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