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On the limiting behaviour of Downton's carrier epidemic in the case of a general infection mechanism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 July 2016
Abstract
A generalization of Downton's (1968) carrier-borne epidemic process is considered in which the assumption of homogeneous mixing is replaced by a general infection mechanism. Using a method and notation similar to that of Gani and Purdue (1984), a recursive algorithm for the joint distribution of the total size and the total observed size of the epidemic is obtained.
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