Economou, A, Gomez Corral, A and Lopez Garcia, M orcid.org/0000-0003-3833-8595 (2015) A stochastic SIS epidemic model with heterogeneous contacts. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 421. pp. 78-97. ISSN 0378-4371
Abstract
A stochastic model for the spread of an SIS epidemic among a population consisting of N individuals, each having heterogeneous infectiousness and/or susceptibility, is considered and its behavior is analyzed under the practically relevant situation when N is small. The model is formulated as a finite time-homogeneous continuous-time Markov chain X. Based on an appropriate labeling of states, we first construct its infinitesimal rate matrix by using an iterative argument, and we then present an algorithmic procedure for computing steady-state measures, such as the number of infected individuals, the length of an outbreak, the maximum number of infectives, and the number of infections suffered by a marked individual during an outbreak. The time till the epidemic extinction is characterized as a phase-type random variable when there is no external source of infection, and its Laplace-Stieltjes transform and moments are derived in terms of a forward elimination backward substitution solution. The inverse iteration method is applied to the quasi-stationary distribution of X, which provides a good approximation of the process X at a certain time, conditional on non-extinction, after a suitable waiting time. The basic reproduction number R0 is defined here as a random variable, rather than an expected value.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2014, Elsevier. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Basic reproduction number; Markov chain model; Maximum number of infected individuals; Number of infections; Quasi-stationary regime; Stochastic SIS epidemic |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Mathematics (Leeds) > Applied Mathematics (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 08 Oct 2015 09:48 |
Last Modified: | 10 May 2019 14:24 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2014.10.054 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.physa.2014.10.054 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:90144 |