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On the size distribution for some epidemic models
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 July 2016
Abstract
We consider the standard epidemic model and several extensions of this model, including Downton's carrier-borne epidemic model. A random time-scale transformation is used to obtain equations for the size distribution and to derive asymptotic approximations for the size distribution for each of the models
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