A stochastic SIS epidemic with demography : initial stages and time to extinction

• We study an open population stochastic epidemic model from the time of introduction of the disease, through a possible outbreak and to extinction. The model describes an SIS (susceptible–infective–susceptible) epidemic where all individuals, including infectious ones, reproduce at a given rate. An approximate expression for the outbreak probability is derived using a coupling argument. Further, we analyse the behaviour of the model close to quasi-stationarity, and the time to disease extinction, with the aid of a diffusion approximation. In this situation the number of susceptibles and infectives behaves as an Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process, centred around the stationary point, for an exponentially distributed time before going extinct.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Matematik -- Sannolikhetsteori och statistik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Mathematics -- Probability Theory and Statistics (hsv//eng)

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Stochastic epidemic model

Quasi stationarity

SIS model

Coupling

Ornstein–Uhlenbeck

Diffusion approximation

Outbreak probability

Mathematical statistics

Matematisk statistik

Mathematical Statistics

matematisk statistik

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