A Symbolic Investigation of Superspreaders

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 777-794

  McCaig, Chris ^a   Begon, Mike ^b   Norman, Rachel ^a   Shankland, Carron ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Changing scale; Mean field equation derivation from process algebra

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; BEHAVIOR; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 79953124479     PISSN: 00928240     EISSN: 15229602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11538-010-9603-7     Document Type: Article

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