AN SIR EPIDEMIC MODEL ON A POPULATION WITH RANDOM NETWORK AND HOUSEHOLD STRUCTURE, AND SEVERAL TYPES OF INDIVIDUALS
AN SIR EPIDEMIC MODEL ON A POPULATION WITH RANDOM NETWORK AND HOUSEHOLD STRUCTURE, AND SEVERAL TYPES OF INDIVIDUALS
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DOI:
10.1239/aap/1331216645
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发表时间:
2012-03-01
影响因子:
1.2
通讯作者:
Sirl, David
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作者:
Ball, Frank;Sirl, David
We consider a stochastic SIR (susceptible -> infective -> removed) epidemic model with several types of individuals. Infectious individuals can make infectious contacts on two levels, within their own 'household' and with their neighbours in a random graph representing additional social contacts. This random graph is an extension of the well-known configuration model to allow for several types of individuals. We give a strong approximation theorem which leads to a threshold theorem for the epidemic model and a method for calculating the probability of a major outbreak given few initial infectives. A multitype analogue of a theorem of Ball, Sirl and Trapman (2009) heuristically motivates a method for calculating the expected size of such a major outbreak. We also consider vaccination and give some short numerical illustrations of our results.