An sir epidemic model on a population with random network and household structure, and several types of individuals

Advances in Applied Probability

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 63-86

  Ball, Frank ^a   Sirl, David ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coupling; Final outcome; Households; Local and global contacts; Multitype branching process; Multitype epidemic process; Multitype random graph; Threshold theorem

Indexed keywords

FINAL OUTCOME; HOUSEHOLDS; MULTI-TYPE BRANCHING; MULTI-TYPE EPIDEMICS; RANDOM GRAPHS; THRESHOLD THEOREM;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COUPLINGS; GRAPH THEORY;

DISEASE CONTROL;

EID: 84871265534     PISSN: 00018678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/aap/1331216645     Document Type: Article

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