A note on the cost of carrier-borne, right-shift, epidemic models
- 1 December 1976
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Applied Probability
- Vol. 13 (4) , 652-661
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3212520
Abstract
We establish a sufficient condition for which the expected area under the trajectory of the carrier process is directly proportional to the expected number of removed carriers in the class of carrier-borne, right-shift, epidemic models studied by Severo (1969a). This result generalizes the previous work of Downton (1972) and Jerwood (1974) for some special cases of these models. We use the result to compute expected costs in the carrier-borne model due to Downton (1968) when it is unlikely that all the susceptibles will be infected. We conclude by showing that for the special case considered by Weiss (1965) this treatment of the expected cost is reasonable for populations with a large initial number of susceptibles.Keywords
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