Probability of a Disease Outbreak in Stochastic Multipatch Epidemic Models

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Volumn 75, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1157-1180

  Lahodny, Glenn E ^a   Allen, Linda J S ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Infectious diseases; Markov chain; Multiple patches; Multitype branching process

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879715009     PISSN: 00928240     EISSN: 15229602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11538-013-9848-z     Document Type: Article

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