Poisson approximation for the final state of a generalized epidemic process

DOI10.1214/aop/1176988177zbMath0833.60023OpenAlexW2049322835MaRDI QIDQ1902945

Sergey Utev, Claude Lefèvre

Publication date: 5 March 1996

Published in: The Annals of Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aop/1176988177

zbMATH Keywords

random walkcouplingepidemic processPoisson convergence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Epidemiology (92D30) Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05)

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