An elementary proof of convergence to the mean-field equations for an epidemic model

DOI10.1093/imamat/hxw010zbMath1401.60172arXiv1501.03250OpenAlexW2167986369MaRDI QIDQ4557240

Benjamin Armbruster, Ekkehard Beck

Publication date: 29 November 2018

Published in: IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.03250

zbMATH Keywords

Jensen's inequalityMarkov chainmean-square convergenceepidemicmean-field ODE

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Epidemiology (92D30) Ordinary differential equations and systems with randomness (34F05) Applications of queueing theory (congestion, allocation, storage, traffic, etc.) (60K30)

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