On modeling epidemics Including latency, incubation and variable susceptibility

E. Ahmed and H.N. Agiza

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1998, vol. 253, issue 1, 347-352

Abstract: A cellular automata model for an epidemic is given.It includes inhomogeneous mixing, latency, incubation andvariable suscepibility to the disease. These features are shown to be extremely difficult to be studied using differential equations.

Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(97)00665-1

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