Limit theorems for the spread of epidemics and forest fires

J. T. Cox and Richard Durrett

Stochastic Processes and their Applications, 1988, vol. 30, issue 2, 171-191

Abstract: We prove that the "spatial epidemic with removal" grows linearly and has an asymptotic shape on the set of nonextinction.

Keywords: epidemics; forest; fires; percolation; shape; theorem (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1988
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