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A bivariate birth-death process which approximates to the spread of a disease involving a vector

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

D. A. Griffiths
D. A. Griffiths*
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
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Abstract

A simple model for a bivariate birth-death process is proposed. This model approximates to the host-vector epidemic situation. An investigation of the transient process is made and the mean behaviour over time is explicitly found. The probability of extinction and the behaviour of the process conditional upon extinction are examined and the probability distribution of the cumulative population size to extinction is found. Appropriate circumstances are suggested under which the model might possibly be applied to malaria. The host-vector model is classified within a general class of models which represent large population approximations to epidemics involving two types of infectives.

Keywords

BIVARIATEBIRTH-DEATH PROCESSCONDITIONED PROCESSEXTINCTIONPOPULATIONHOST-VECTORMALARIAEPIDEMIC MODELCARRIER-BORNE DISEASE
Type
Research Papers
Information
Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , March 1972 , pp. 65 - 75
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1972 

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