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The Deterministic Spread of a Simple Epidemic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2017

H. E. Daniels
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Abstract

An approximation technique is developed for studying the deterministic spread of a simple epidemic which avoids a difficulty inherent in the diffusion approximation. Travelling wave solutions are found and calculated for various contact distributions. The solution developing from an isolated infective is also briefly discussed.

Type
Part IX — Biomathematics and Epidemiology
Information
Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 12 , Issue S1 , 1975 , pp. 373 - 386
Copyright
Copyright © 1975 Applied Probability Trust 

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