Branching Processes: Their Role in Epidemiology

Branching processes are stochastic individual-based processes leading consequently to a bottom-up approach. In addition, since the state variables are random integer variables (representing population sizes), the extinction occurs at random finite time on the extinction set, thus leading to fine and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Christine Jacob
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2010-03-01
Series:International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/7/3/1186/