Intervention to maximise the probability of epidemic fade-out

DOI10.1016/j.mbs.2017.08.003zbMath1378.92064WikidataQ40095357 ScholiaQ40095357MaRDI QIDQ1678511

P. G. Ballard, Joshua V. Ross, Nigel G. Bean

Publication date: 17 November 2017

Published in: Mathematical Biosciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2440/107342

zbMATH Keywords

epidemic control; stochastic model; Markov decision theory; SIR infection model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

60J22: Computational methods in Markov chains

92D30: Epidemiology

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