On discrete time epidemic models in Kermack-McKendrick form
On discrete time epidemic models in Kermack-McKendrick form
Surprisingly, the discrete-time version of the general 1927 Kermack-McKendrick epidemic model has, to our knowledge, not been formulated in the literature, and we rectify this omission here. The discrete time version is as general and flexible as its continuous-time counterpart, and contains numerous compartmental models as special cases. In contrast …