The effect of preferential mixing on the growth of an epidemic

DOI10.1016/0025-5564(92)90051-WzbMath0747.92028WikidataQ52422979 ScholiaQ52422979MaRDI QIDQ1193122

Ian C. Marschner

Publication date: 27 September 1992

Published in: Mathematical Biosciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

spread of infectionpreferential mixinghomogeneous modelscomparison of heterogeneous epidemic modelsepidemic threshold parametermultitype branching process approximationprobability of a major outbreakstratified community

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Epidemiology (92D30) Applications of branching processes (60J85)

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