New Moment Closures Based on A Priori Distributions with Applications to Epidemic Dynamics

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Volumn 74, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1501-1515

  Kiss, Istvan Z ^a   Simon, Péter L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Closure; Epidemic; Markov chain; Pairwise model

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; EPIDEMICS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 84861760897     PISSN: 00928240     EISSN: 15229602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11538-012-9723-3     Document Type: Article

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