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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2011-02-01
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Series: | PLoS Computational Biology |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3040644?pdf=render |