Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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9573572 | Biophysical Chemistry | 2005 | 5 Pages |
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 εâ1, where ε is the normalized infection rate.
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Authors
Francisco Guinea, Vincent A.A. Jansen, Nico Stollenwerk,