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  • A random allocation model for carrier-borne epidemics

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  • D. J. Daley, J. Gani
  • Journal:
    Journal of Applied Probability / Volume 30 / Issue 4 / December 1993
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    14 July 2016, pp. 751-765
    Print publication:
    December 1993

  • 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.