A unified approach to the distribution of total size and total area under the trajectory of infectives in epidemic models
Frank BallUniversity of Nottingham
1986en
ABI
Abstract
We provide a unified probabilistic approach to the distribution of total size and total area under the trajectory of infectives for a general stochastic epidemic with any specified distribution of the infectious period. The key tool is a Wald&s identity for the epidemic process. The generalisation of our results to epidemics spreading amongst a heterogeneous population is straightforward.
Identifiers
Citations and references
Cited by 20 references