Threshold parameters for epidemics in different community settings

DOI10.1016/0025-5564(94)00061-4zbMath0828.92027WikidataQ52329054 ScholiaQ52329054MaRDI QIDQ1899216

Niels G. Becker, Klaus Dietz, Abbas Bahrampour

Publication date: 4 January 1996

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0025-5564(94)00061-4

zbMATH Keywords

branching processes; control strategies; threshold parameters; fixed patterns of behavior; random patterns of behavior

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

92D30: Epidemiology

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