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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 July 2016
Let n and m be the initial numbers of susceptibles and infectives respectively in the well-known model of Bailey. The successive states of a population will be described by (i,j), where i is the number infected since the beginning of the epidemic, and j is the number removed (dead, isolated or recovered and immune) during the same period. The transition probabilities obviously are the following