Central limit approximations for Markov population processes with countably many types

DOI10.1214/EJP.V17-1760MaRDI QIDQ456248zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors A. D. Barbour, Malwina Luczak

Publication date 23 October 2012

Published in Electronic Journal of Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1201.5538

zbMATH Keywords

central limit approximationcountably many typesepidemic modelsMarkov population processesmetapopulation processes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05) Continuous-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces (60J27) Population dynamics (general) (92D25) Epidemiology (92D30)

Abstract: When modelling metapopulation dynamics, the influence of a single patch on the metapopulation depends on the number of individuals in the patch. Since there is usually no obvious natural upper limit on the number of individuals in a patch, this leads to systems in which there are countably infinitely many possible types of entity. Analogous considerations apply in the transmission of parasitic diseases. In this paper, we prove central limit theorems for quite general systems of this kind, together with bounds on the rate of convergence in an appropriately chosen weighted $el{l}_1$ norm.

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