Abstract
The time until extinction for the closed SIS stochastic logistic epidemic model is investigated. We derive the asymptotic distribution for the extinction time as the population grows to infinity, under different initial conditions and for different values of the infection rate.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 662-670 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | Journal of Applied Probability |
Volume | 35 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 1 1998 |
Keywords
- Birth and death process
- Coupling
- Entropy
- Epidemic process
- Time to extinction
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Statistics and Probability
- General Mathematics
- Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty