On the size distribution for some epidemic models

1 March 1980

journal article
research article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Applied Probability

Vol. 17 (04) , 912-921
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021900200097205

Abstract

We consider the standard epidemic model and several extensions of this model, including Downton's carrier-borne epidemic model. A random time-scale transformation is used to obtain equations for the size distribution and to derive asymptotic approximations for the size distribution for each of the models

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