Strong approximations for epidemic models

DOI10.1016/0304-4149(94)00034-QzbMath0823.92024MaRDI QIDQ1346141

Peter Donnelly, Frank G. Ball

Publication date: 31 October 1995

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

zbMATH Keywords

coupling; total variation distance; general branching process; general stochastic epidemic; closed homogeneously mixing population; limiting branching process; multipopulation epidemics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

92D30: Epidemiology

60F15: Strong limit theorems

60J85: Applications of branching processes

60K99: Special processes

60J80: Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.)

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