TY - JOUR AU - Artalejo, Jesús R. AU - Economou, A. AU - Lopez-Herrero, M.J. PY - 2010 DO - 10.1016/j.cam.2009.11.003 SN - 0377-0427 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/149 T2 - Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics AB - We study the maximumn umber of infected individuals observed during an epidemic for a Susceptible–Infected–Susceptible (SIS) model which corresponds to a birth–death process with an absorbing state. We develop computational schemes for the... LA - eng M2 - 2563 PB - Elsevier Science Bv KW - Stochastic SIS epidemic model KW - Maximum number of infected individuals KW - Extinction time KW - Transient distribution KW - Quasi-stationary distribution KW - Absorption probabilities TI - The maximum number of infected individuals in SIS epidemic models: Computational techniques and quasi-stationary distributions TY - journal article VL - 233 ER -