On the derivation of the renewal equation from an age-dependent branching process: an epidemic modelling perspective

Renewal processes are a popular approach used in modelling infectious disease outbreaks. In a renewal process, previous infections give rise to future infections. However, while this formulation seems sensible, its application to infectious disease can be difficult to justify from first principles....

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Veröffentlicht in:	arXiv.org 2020-06
Hauptverfasser:	Mishra, Swapnil, Berah, Tresnia, Mellan, Thomas A, Unwin, H Juliette T, Vollmer, Michaela A, Parag, Kris V, Gandy, Axel, Flaxman, Seth, Bhatt, Samir
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Branching (mathematics) Derivation Epidemics First principles Infectious diseases Markov processes Outbreaks
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