A note on the moments of the final size of the general epidemic model
- 1 March 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Applied Probability
- Vol. 17 (02) , 532-538
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021900200047355
Abstract
In the general epidemic model we study the first two moments of the final size. Beginning with the backwards equation, algebraic methods are used to find their asymptotic series expansions as the population size increases.Keywords
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