3 papers
q-bio.PE2023
The effect of host population heterogeneity on epidemic outbreaks
Martin Bootsma, Danny Chan, Odo Diekmann +1
In the first part of this paper, we review old and new results about the influence of host population heterogeneity on (various characteristics of) epidemic outbreaks. In the secon…
q-bio.PE2023
Separable mixing: the general formulation and a particular example focusing on mask efficiency
M. C. J. Bootsma, K. M. D. Chan, O. Diekmann +1
The aim of this short note is twofold. We formulate the general Kermack-McKendrick epidemic model incorporating static heterogeneity and show how it simplifies to a scalar Renewal…
q-bio.PE2022
A systematic procedure for incorporating separable static heterogeneity into compartmental epidemic models
Odo Diekmann, Hisashi Inaba
In this paper, we show how to modify a compartmental epidemic model, without changing the dimension, such that separable static heterogeneity is taken into account. The derivation…