Smallpox: When Should Routine Vaccination Be Discontinued? (Modules and Monographs in Undergraduate Mathematics and Its Applications)

The models developed to describe an epidemic outbreak of smallpox are standard stochastic processes (birth-death, random walk and branching processes). Specifically, in Section 6 a birth-death pro­ cess is replaced by a random walk and in Section 7 a prob­ lem is formulated both as a multi-birth-death process and as a branching process.