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Problems of Epidemic Modelling

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Stochastic Methods in Biology

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Biomathematics ((LNBM,volume 70))

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This note gives a brief review of some aspects of epidemic modelling which I have found of interest. The field is now very broad, and it is difficult to provide more than a partial flavor of recent developments. We shall concentrate on three topics: epidemic data fitting, matrix-geometric methods for general epidemics, and the duration of an epidemic in an immigration type model. These will provide a sample of current research problems.

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  1. Statistics and Applied Probability Program, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, USA

    J. Gani

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  1. National Institute of Genetics, Yata 1, 111 Mishima, Shizuoka-ken, 411, Japan

    Motoo Kimura

  2. Center for Stochastic Processes, Department of Statistics, University of North Carolina, 27514, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

    Gopinath Kallianpur

  3. Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Nagoya University, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 464, Japan

    Takeyuki Hida

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Gani, J. (1987). Problems of Epidemic Modelling. In: Kimura, M., Kallianpur, G., Hida, T. (eds) Stochastic Methods in Biology. Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, vol 70. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-46599-4_13

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