First principles modeling of nonlinear incidence rates in seasonal epidemics.

In this paper we used a general stochastic processes framework to derive from first principles the incidence rate function that characterizes epidemic models. We investigate a particular case, the Liu-Hethcote-van den Driessche's (LHD) incidence rate function, which results from modeling the nu...

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Main Authors: José M Ponciano, Marcos A Capistrán
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-02-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3040644?pdf=render