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Behaviors of a Disease Outbreak During the Initial Phase and the Branching Process Approximation

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Quantitative Methods for Investigating Infectious Disease Outbreaks

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We consider that at the beginning, t = 0, there is no disease. We call the system at this condition the disease-free equilibrium. We assume that the entire population is susceptible. The size of the susceptible population is denoted by m.

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  1. Infectious Diseases Prevention and Control Branch, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada

    Ping Yan

  2. Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    Ping Yan

  3. School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Gerardo Chowell

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Yan, P., Chowell, G. (2019). Behaviors of a Disease Outbreak During the Initial Phase and the Branching Process Approximation. In: Quantitative Methods for Investigating Infectious Disease Outbreaks. Texts in Applied Mathematics, vol 70. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21923-9_4

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