The discounted reproductive number for epidemiology

Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 377-393

  Rbluga, Timothy C ^a   Medlock, Jan ^b   Galvani, Alison ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Game theory; Reproductive number; Ultimate proliferation rate

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PREVALENCE; STATISTICS;

BIOMETRY; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; HUMANS; PREVALENCE;

EID: 67650468936     PISSN: 15471063     EISSN: 15510018     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/mbe.2009.6.377     Document Type: Article

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