The rate of convergence to early asymptotic behaviour in age-structured epidemic models

DOI10.1016/J.TPB.2013.02.003MaRDI QIDQ743319zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Christopher A. Rhodes, Thomas House

Publication date 23 September 2014

Published in Theoretical Population Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.4201

zbMATH Keywords

age-structured epidemic modeldynamical system

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems in biology (37N25) Epidemiology (92D30)

Abstract: Age structure is incorporated in many types of epidemic model. Often it is convenient to assume that such models converge to early asymptotic behaviour quickly, before the susceptible population has been appreciably depleted. We make use of dynamical systems theory to show that for some reasonable parameter values, this convergence can be slow. Such a possibility should therefore be considered when parameterising age-structured epidemic models.

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