Structured Modeling and Analysis of Stochastic Epidemics with Immigration and Demographic Effects.

Stochastic epidemics with open populations of variable population sizes are considered where due to immigration and demographic effects the epidemic does not eventually die out forever. The underlying stochastic processes are ergodic multi-dimensional continuous-time Markov chains that possess uniqu...

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Main Authors: Hendrik Baumann, Werner Sandmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4806999?pdf=render