On the limiting behaviour of Downton's carrier epidemic in the case of a general infection mechanism

DOI10.2307/3214419zbMath0678.92012OpenAlexW2330756802MaRDI QIDQ3835347

James G. Booth

Publication date: 1989

Published in: Journal of Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/3214419

zbMATH Keywords

Laplace transformsrecursive algorithmjoint asymptotic distributionmatrix-geometric methodstotal sizecarrier-borne epidemic processgeneral infection mechanismtotal observed sizetrivariate Markov chain

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Population dynamics (general) (92D25) Applications of Markov chains and discrete-time Markov processes on general state spaces (social mobility, learning theory, industrial processes, etc.) (60J20) Continuous-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces (60J27)

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