A stochastic graph process for epidemic modelling

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 55-67

  Hosseinkashi, Yasaman ^a   Chenouri, Shojaeddin ^a   Small, Christopher G ^a   Deardon, Rob ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Basic reproductive number; Dynamic random graphs; Foot and mouth disease outbreak; Infectious disease network; Markov property; Stochastic epidemic models; Stochastic processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856879983     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: 1708945X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cjs.10142     Document Type: Article

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