On the spread of a disease with gamma distributed latent and infectious periods

DOI10.1093/biomet/67.1.191zbMath0421.92023OpenAlexW2005627719MaRDI QIDQ3854996

Publication date: 1980

Published in: Biometrika (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/biomet/67.1.191

zbMATH Keywords

size distribution threshold latent period outbreak martingale central limit theorem infectious period mean time general epidemic model independently gamma distributed periods

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Markov processes: estimation; hidden Markov models (62M05) Applications of branching processes (60J85) Population dynamics (general) (92D25)

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