A primer on stochastic epidemic models: Formulation, numerical simulation, and analysis

Infectious Disease Modelling

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 128-142

  Allen, Linda J S ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Branching process; Continuous time Markov chain; Minor outbreak; Stochastic differential equation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; DISEASE SIMULATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; MALARIA; MARKOV CHAIN; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM; PROBABILITY; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

EID: 85037830416     PISSN: 24680427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.idm.2017.03.001     Document Type: Article

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