3 papers
math.PR2025
Household epidemic models revisited
Frank Ball, Tom Britton, Peter Neal
We analyse a generalized stochastic household epidemic model defined by a bivariate random variable , representing the number of global and local infectious contacts th…
math.PR2024
An epidemic model on a network having two group structures with tunable overlap
Frank Ball, Tom Britton, Peter Neal
A network epidemic model is studied. The underlying social network has two different types of group structures, households and workplaces, such that each individual belongs to exac…
q-bio.PE2024
Improving the use of social contact studies in epidemic modelling
Tom Britton, Frank Ball
Social contact studies, investigating social contact patterns in a population sample, have been an important contribution for epidemic models to better fit real life epidemics. A c…