How big is an outbreak likely to be? Methods for epidemic final-size calculation

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 469, Issue 2150, 2013, Pages

  House, Thomas ^a   Ross, Joshua V ^b   Sirl, David ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Infectious disease; Markov chain; Susceptible infectious recovered(s)

Indexed keywords

MARKOV PROCESSES;

EPIDEMIC MODELS; FINITE POPULATION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; LARGE POPULATION; NUMERICAL EFFICIENCY; PROBABILITY MASS FUNCTION; STOCHASTIC EPIDEMICS; SUSCEPTIBLE-INFECTIOUS- RECOVERED(S);

EPIDEMIOLOGY;

EID: 84872358666     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2012.0436     Document Type: Review

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