Age of Infection Epidemic Models

Fred Brauer ()
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Fred Brauer: University of British Columbia, Department of Mathematics

A chapter in Mathematical and Statistical Modeling for Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases, 2016, pp 207-220 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The age of infection model, first introduced by Kermack and McKendrick in 1927, is a general structure for compartmental epidemic models, including models with heterogeneous mixing. It is possible to estimate the basic reproduction number if the initial exponential growth rate and the infectivity as a function of time since being infected are known, and this is also possible for models with heterogeneous mixing.

Keywords: Epidemic models; Age of infection model; Heterogenous mixing; Basic reproduction number; Exponential growth rate; Infectivity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-40413-4_13

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