Approximating the Reed-Frost epidemic process

DOI10.1016/J.SPA.2004.03.013MaRDI QIDQ2485788zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sergey Utev, A. D. Barbour

Publication date 5 August 2005

Published in Stochastic Processes and their Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spa.2004.03.013

zbMATH Keywords

Total variationBranching process approximationReed-Frost epidemic processAsymptotic relative closenessFinal size distributionLocal limit approximation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Epidemiology (92D30) Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05) Applications of branching processes (60J85)

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