Mixed Poisson approximation in the collective epidemic model

DOI10.1016/S0304-4149(97)00050-1zbMath0912.60042MaRDI QIDQ1275946

Claude Lefèvre, Sergei Utev

Publication date: 14 January 1999

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

zbMATH Keywords

branching process; infinitely divisible distribution; collective epidemic model; final susceptible state; generalized epidemic model; mixed Poisson approximation; stochastic convex order; weak convergence of products of i.i.d. r.v.'s

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

92D30: Epidemiology

60F05: Central limit and other weak theorems

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