3 papers
physics.soc-ph2016
Evaluation of vaccination strategies for SIR epidemics on random networks incorporating household structure
Frank Ball, David Sirl
This paper is concerned with the analysis of vaccination strategies in a stochastic SIR (susceptible infected removed) model for the spread of an epidemic amongst a pop…
math.PR2014
On expected durations of birth-death processes, with applications to branching processes and SIS epidemics
Frank Ball, Tom Britton, Peter Neal
We study continuous-time birth-death type processes, where individuals have independent and identically distributed lifetimes, according to a random variable Q, with E[Q]=1, and wh…
math.PR2010
Household epidemic models with varying infection response
Frank Ball, Tom Britton, David Sirl
This paper is concerned with SIR (susceptible infected removed) household epidemic models in which the infection response may be either mild or severe, with the type of…