Accession Number:
AD0763674
Title:
Point Processes in Epidemiology
Descriptive Note:
Technical rept.
Corporate Author:
STANFORD UNIV CA DEPT OF STATISTICS
Personal Author(s):
Report Date:
1973-05-15
Pagination or Media Count:
30.0
Abstract:
The paper consists of six sections. The first is devoted to chain binomial methods and their use in the statistical analysis of measles and hepatitis data. A second considers time dependent results for carrier-borne epidemics, and the use of matrix methods in computing probabilities of their final size. The third surveys the application of perturbation techniques to the general stochastic epidemic, and the estimation of infection and removal parameters in this model on the basis of smallpox data. The fourth section summarizes asymptotic results for the general stochastic epidemic when the initial populations of susceptibles and infectives are both very large. In the fifth, some recent results are outlined on the costs of epidemics these depend on the stochastic path integral under the infective curve. Finally, a brief account is given of the analysis of space-time interactions in epidemic processes.
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Subject Categories:
- Medicine and Medical Research
- Statistics and Probability