Disease Control through Voluntary Vaccination Decisions Based on the Smoothed Best Response

We investigate game-theory based decisions on vaccination uptake and its effects on the spread of an epidemic with nonlinear incidence rate. It is assumed that each individual's decision approximates his/her best response (called smoothed best response) in that this person chooses to take the v...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Xu, Fei, Cressman, Ross
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3947699/