STRONG APPROXIMATIONS FOR EPIDEMIC MODELS

This paper is concerned with the approximation of early stages of epidemic processes by branching processes. A general model for an epidemic in a closed, homogeneously mixing population is presented. A construction of a sequence of such epidemics, indexed by the initial number of susceptibles N, fro...

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Main Authors: Ball, F, Donnelly, P
Format: Journal article
Published: 1995