Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
9573572 Biophysical Chemistry 2005 5 Pages PDF
Abstract
The statistics of outbreaks in a model for the propagation of meningococcal disease is analyzed, taking into account the possibility that the population is fragmented into weakly connected patches. It is shown that, depending on the size of the sample studied, the ration between the variance and the average of infected cases can vary from unity (Poisson statistics) to ε−1, where ε is the normalized infection rate.
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