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As mentioned in the introduction, threshold concepts are the most powerful results that mathematical modelling can contribute to theoretical epidemiology. They lead to threshold functions that partition the parameter space into subsets in which the model solutions behave in qualitatively different ways. Early threshold results are all based on deterministic models. For the deterministic version of the SIS model, one studies the proportion of infected individuals as time approaches infinity.
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Nåsell, I. (2011). Thresholds for the SIS Model. In: Extinction and Quasi-Stationarity in the Stochastic Logistic SIS Model. Lecture Notes in Mathematics(), vol 2022. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20530-9_14
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