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The recurrent epidemic
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 July 2016
Abstract
The recurrent epidemic model has hitherto proved mathematically intractable. It is shown here that by imposing the mild condition that the source of new susceptibles is initially of a constant size M for M sufficiently large that there is zero probability of more than M new susceptibles being added to the population in the course of the epidemic, then state probabilities for the stochastic recurrent epidemic model can be found.
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