The relationships between message passing, pairwise, Kermack–McKendrick and stochastic SIR epidemic models

We consider a very general stochastic model for an SIR epidemic on a network which allows an individual’s infectious period, and the time it takes to contact each of its neighbours after becoming infected, to be correlated. We write down the message passing system of equations for this model and pro...

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Main Authors: Wilkinson, Robert R., Ball, Frank G., Sharkey, Kieran J.
Format: Article
Published: Springer 2017
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/42114/