A Random Walk Epidemic Simulation
- 1 December 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Journal of the American Statistical Association
- Vol. 68 (344) , 821
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2284506
Abstract
An epidemic simulation is presented in which the population occupies a rectangular grid and individuals or germs move about the grid using a two-dimensional random walk. It is shown that the model can simulate the Providence measles data and also a distemper epidemic in ferrets.Keywords
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