Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5760501 | Mathematical Biosciences | 2017 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
We consider a stochastic model describing the spread of a vector borne disease in a community where individuals (hosts and vectors) die and new individuals (hosts and vectors) are born. The time to extinction of the disease, TQ, starting in quasi-stationary (conditional on non extinction) is studied. Properties of the limiting distribution are used to obtain an approximate expression for E(TQ), the mean-parameter in the exponential distribution of the time to extinction, for a finite population. It is then investigated numerically and by means of simulations how E(TQ) and its approximations depend on the different model parameters.
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Authors
Tom Britton, Ali Traoré,