Outbreak size distributions in epidemics with multiple stages
Outbreak size distributions in epidemics with multiple stages
Multiple-type branching processes that model the spread of infectious diseases are investigated.In these stochastic processes, the disease goes through multiple stages before it eventually disappears.We mostly focus on the critical multistage Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) infection process.In the infinite population limit, we compute the outbreak size distributions and show that asymptotic results …