Abstract
In the households model analysed in Chapter 2, infectives make two types of infectious contacts: local contacts with individuals in their household and global contacts with individuals chosen uniformly at random from the whole population. This is an example of an epidemic in a population with two levels of mixing.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2019 Springer Nature Switzerland AG
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Britton, T., Pardoux, E. (2019). Chapter 3 A General Two-Level Mixing Model. In: Britton, T., Pardoux, E. (eds) Stochastic Epidemic Models with Inference. Lecture Notes in Mathematics(), vol 2255. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30900-8_7
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30900-8_7
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-30899-5
Online ISBN: 978-3-030-30900-8
eBook Packages: Mathematics and StatisticsMathematics and Statistics (R0)