A modification of the general stochastic epidemic motivated by AIDS modelling

DOI10.2307/1427495zbMath0777.92018MaRDI QIDQ5286066

Publication date: 29 June 1993

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/1427495

zbMATH Keywords

stochastic models; time-dependent solution; threshold theorems; size of epidemic; total size distribution; AIDS modelling; closed and homogeneously mixing epidemic model; complete closed-form solution; embedded random walks; general deterministic epidemic; varying susceptibles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

92D30: Epidemiology

60J20: Applications of Markov chains and discrete-time Markov processes on general state spaces (social mobility, learning theory, industrial processes, etc.)

60J27: Continuous-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces

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