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Large deviations for discrete-time epidemic models.

D P Viaud
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A sufficient condition is presented under which a family of discrete-time epidemic models follows a large deviation principle. Following Freidlin and Wentzell (1984), we study exit time from a domain for such a family of discrete-time epidemic models.

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D P Viaud. Large deviations for discrete-time epidemic models.. https://doi.org/10.1016/0025-5564(93)90023-4

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