The Final Size of an Epidemic and Its Relation to the Basic Reproduction Number

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Volumn 73, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2305-2321

  Andreasen, Viggo ^a,b  

^a ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Final size relation; Heterogeneous mixing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; POPULATION DENSITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

EPIDEMICS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; POPULATION DENSITY;

EID: 80255127568     PISSN: 00928240     EISSN: 15229602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11538-010-9623-3     Document Type: Article

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