From Markovian to pairwise epidemic models and the performance of moment closure approximations

Journal of Mathematical Biology

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1021-1042

  Taylor, Michael ^a   Simon, Péter L ^b   Green, Darren M ^c   House, Thomas ^d   Kiss, Istvan Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epidemic; Markov chain; Moment closure; Network

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PROBABILITY;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84859631507     PISSN: 03036812     EISSN: 14321416     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00285-011-0443-3     Document Type: Article

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