Some majorization orderings of heterogeneity in a class of epidemics

DOI10.2307/3215177zbMATH Open0876.60012OpenAlexW4247393094MaRDI QIDQ4339250FDOQ4339250

Authors: Y. L. Tong 

Publication date: 10 November 1997

Published in: Journal of Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/3215177

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zbMATH Keywords

majorization inequalitiesheterogeneity in epidemicsCarrier-Borne model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics (62P99) Inequalities; stochastic orderings (60E15)

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