Threshold behaviour and final outcome of an epidemic on a random network with household structure

This paper considers a stochastic SIR (susceptible-infective-removed) epidemic model in which individuals may make infectious contacts in two ways, both within 'households' (which for ease of exposition are assumed to have equal size) and along the edges of a random graph describing additi...

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Main Authors: Ball, Frank G., Sirl, David J., Trapman, Pieter
Format: Article
Published: Applied Probability Trust 2009
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/1299/