Assessing the Impact of Intervention Delays on Stochastic Epidemics

Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 803-820

  Spencer, Simon Edward Frank ^a,b   O'Neill, Philip D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Branching process; Emerging disease; Intervention delay; Reproduction number; Stochastic epidemic; Vaccination

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885837283     PISSN: 13875841     EISSN: 15737713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11009-012-9278-7     Document Type: Article

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