A Functional Limit Theorem for the Total Cost of a Multitype Standard Epidemic
- 1 March 1994
- journal article
- general applied-probability
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Advances in Applied Probability
- Vol. 26 (03) , 690-697
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0001867800026495
Abstract
By imbedding the multitype version of the standard epidemic model in a multiparameter process, we derive a functional limit theorem for the total cost of the epidemics.Keywords
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