Stochastic multitype epidemics in a community of households: Estimation of threshold parameter R and secure vaccination coverage
家庭群体中随机多类型流行病的阈值参数与安全接种覆盖率估计
This paper is concerned with estimation of the threshold parameter R* for a stochastic model for the spread of a susceptible → infective → removed epidemic among a closed, finite population that contains several types of individual and is partitioned into households. It turns out that R* cannot be estimated consistently from final outcome data, so a Perron–Frobenius argument is used to obtain sharp lower and upper bounds for R*, which can be estimated consistently.…