An algebraic proof of the threshold theorem for the general stochastic epidemic

Trevor Williams

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Bailey (1957) has considered the general stochastic epidemic with relative removal rate ρ, one initial infective and n susceptibles. His Equation (5.51) may be re-cast as where the fk satisfy the recurrence relationship

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