RT Journal Article
T1 On the number of recovered individuals in the SIS and SIR stochastic epidemic models
A1 Artalejo Rodríguez, Jesús Manuel
A1 Economou, A.
A1 López Herrero, María Jesús
AB The basic models of infectious disease dynamics (the SIS and SIR models) are considered. Particular attention is paid to the number of infected individuals that recovered and its relationship with the final epidemic size. We investigate this descriptor both until the extinction of the epidemic and in transient regime. Simple and efficient methods to obtain the distribution of the number of recovered individuals and its moments are proposed and discussed with respect to the previous work. The methodology could also be extended to other stochastic epidemic models. The theory is illustrated by numerical experiments, which demonstrate that the proposed computational methods can be applied efficiently. in particular, we use the distribution of the number of individuals removed in the SIR model in conjunction with data of outbreaks of ESBL observed in the intensive care unit of a Spanish hospital.
PB Elsevier Science Inc
SN 0025-5564
YR 2010
FD 2010-11
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/42129
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/42129
LA eng
NO Government of Spain (Department of Science and Innovation)
NO European Commission
DS Docta Complutense
RD 6 abr 2025