Strong approximations for epidemic models

DOI10.1016/0304-4149(94)00034-QzbMath0823.92024OpenAlexW2054757048MaRDI QIDQ1346141

Peter Donnelly, Frank G. Ball

Publication date: 31 October 1995

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0304-4149(94)00034-q

zbMATH Keywords

couplingtotal variation distancegeneral branching processgeneral stochastic epidemicclosed homogeneously mixing populationlimiting branching processmultipopulation epidemics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Epidemiology (92D30) Strong limit theorems (60F15) Applications of branching processes (60J85) Special processes (60K99) Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80)

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