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Generality of the Final Size Formula for an Epidemic of a Newly Invading Infectious Disease

The well-known formula for the final size of an epidemic was published by Kermack and McKendrick in 1927. Their analysis was based on a simple susceptible-infected-recovered (SIR) model that assumes exponentially distributed infectious periods. More recent analyses have established that the standard...

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Autores principales: Ma, Junling, Earn, David J. D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer-Verlag 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7088645/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16794950
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11538-005-9047-7