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A note on the total size distribution of carrier-borne epidemic models

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Frank Ball
Frank Ball*
Affiliation:
University of Nottingham
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∗ Postal address: Department of Mathematics, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK.
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Abstract

The coupling method of Ball (1986) is extended to carrier-borne epidemics, thus providing a new proof of a result of Daniels (1972) concerning the total size distribution of Downton's stochastic carrier-borne epidemic. The generalization to multipopulation carrier-borne epidemics is immediate.

Keywords

COUPLINGMULTIPOPULATION EPIDEMIC
Type
Short Communication
Information
Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 27 , Issue 4 , December 1990 , pp. 908 - 912
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1990 

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