Random contact processes, snowball sampling and factorial series distributions

DOI10.2307/3213718zbMATH Open0509.60014OpenAlexW4239294032MaRDI QIDQ4747296FDOQ4747296

Authors: Sven Berg 

Publication date: 1983

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/3213718

zbMATH Keywords

epidemic curveStirling numbers of the second kindsnowball samplingrandom mappingschain binomial modelssize of epidemicfactorial series distributionsspread of rumourssequential catch-recapture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Population dynamics (general) (92D25) Combinatorial probability (60C05) Special processes (60K99)

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• Predecessors and successors in random mappings with exchangeable in-degrees
• How fast do rumours spread?
• Densities of scaling limits of coupled continuous time random walks
• Local properties of random mappings with exchangeable in-degrees

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