Endemic persistence or disease extinction: The effect of separation into sub-communities

DOI10.1016/j.tpb.2007.05.001zbMath1123.92031WikidataQ51911847 ScholiaQ51911847MaRDI QIDQ2459064

Tom Britton, Mathias Lindholm

Publication date: 5 November 2007

Published in: Theoretical Population Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tpb.2007.05.001

zbMATH Keywords

quasi-stationary distribution; SIR epidemic; population heterogeneity; endemic diseases; expected time to extinction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

92D30: Epidemiology

60G35: Signal detection and filtering (aspects of stochastic processes)

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