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Velocity of stochastic processes in two dimensions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

Denis Mollison
Denis Mollison*
Affiliation:
Heriot-Watt University
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Extract

A basic class of spatial stochastic processes is that in which the phenomenon spreads between static individuals with probability of ‘infection’ falling off with distance according to a contact distribution (Mollison (1972)). The following questions then arise:

(1) How does the velocity of spread depend on the contact distribution? In particular, for which contact distributions is it finite?

(2) Does the phenomenon spread at a steady velocity, or does it spread in jumps?

Type
Stochastic Modelling
Information
Advances in Applied Probability , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , September 1975 , pp. 458 - 459
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1975 

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