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A random allocation model for carrier-borne epidemics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 July 2016
Abstract
A carrier-borne epidemic is considered in which the carriers, subject to a death process, infect susceptibles by random allocation rather than the classical homogeneous mixing process. An explicit solution for the probability generating function (p.g.f.) of the process is obtained, and a probabilistic analysis of carrier models provided. The sizes and durations of the random allocation and classical carrier epidemics are compared. The strongest comparisons concern sample path results based on the probabilistic analysis; this also gives a sounder basis for computational work.
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- Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1993
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Research carried out with the support of NIH Grant ROI AI 29426 while visiting the Australian National University.
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