A new look at the critical community size for childhood infections

DOI10.1016/j.tpb.2005.01.002zbMath1075.92046WikidataQ47386290 ScholiaQ47386290MaRDI QIDQ2565643

Ingemar Nåsell

Publication date: 28 September 2005

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tpb.2005.01.002

zbMATH Keywords

diffusion approximation; simulations; asymptotic approximations; demographic stochasticity; Kolmogorov forward equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

92D30: Epidemiology

92D40: Ecology

60J70: Applications of Brownian motions and diffusion theory (population genetics, absorption problems, etc.)

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