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Type: Journal article
Title: WKB calculation of an epidemic outbreak distribution
Author: Black, A.
McKane, A.
Citation: Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, 2011; 2011(12):1-17
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing Ltd.
Issue Date: 2011
ISSN: 1742-5468
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Andrew J Black and Alan J McKane
Abstract: We calculate both the exponential and prefactor contributions in a WKB approximation of the master equation for a stochastic SIR model with highly oscillatory dynamics. Fixing the basic parameters of the model, we investigate how the outbreak distribution changes with the population size. We show that this distribution rapidly becomes highly non-Gaussian, acquiring large tails, indicating the presence of rare but large outbreaks, as the population is made smaller. The analytic results are found to be in excellent agreement with simulations until the systems become so small that the dynamics are dominated by fade-out of the disease.
Keywords: stochastic processes (theory)
epidemic modelling
Rights: © 2011 IOP Publishing Ltd and SISSA
DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/2011/12/P12006
Published version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-5468/2011/12/p12006
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