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In the preceding section the ultimate behavior of the model could be determined by finding the roots of a transcendental equation. We explore this idea further with a more general model and procedure. The contents of this chapter are based on a paper of Hoppensteadt (see notes at the end of the section). In order to formulate this more general model, the previous definition of the class (S) is modified to be “susceptible and unexposed to the infection,” and a class (E) of “exposed but not yet infective” individuals is added to the model. Schamatically, this model is the form
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Waltman, P. (1974). A More General Model and the Determination of the Intensity of an Epidemic. In: Deterministic Threshold Models in the Theory of Epidemics. Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80820-3_2
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