Final outcome of an epidemic in two interacting populations

Applied Mathematics and Information Sciences

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 159-176

  El Maroufy, Hamid ^a   Taib, Ziad ^b  

^a SULTAN MOULAY SLIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Duration of the epidemic; Epidemic model; Final size; Matrix geometric; Number of new cases

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856838481     PISSN: 19350090     EISSN: 23250399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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