Statistical physics of vaccination

Z Wang, CT Bauch, S Bhattacharyya, A d'Onofrio… - Physics Reports, 2016 - Elsevier
Historically, infectious diseases caused considerable damage to human societies, and they
continue to do so today. To help reduce their impact, mathematical models of disease …

WKB theory of large deviations in stochastic populations

M Assaf, B Meerson - Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Stochasticity can play an important role in the dynamics of biologically relevant populations.
These span a broad range of scales: from intra-cellular populations of molecules to …

[HTML][HTML] A primer on stochastic epidemic models: Formulation, numerical simulation, and analysis

LJS Allen - Infectious Disease Modelling, 2017 - Elsevier
Some mathematical methods for formulation and numerical simulation of stochastic
epidemic models are presented. Specifically, models are formulated for continuous-time …

Heterogeneity matters: Contact structure and individual variation shape epidemic dynamics

G Großmann, M Backenköhler, V Wolf - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
In the recent COVID-19 pandemic, mathematical modeling constitutes an important tool to
evaluate the prospective effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) and to …

[HTML][HTML] A new fractional-order compartmental disease model

LVC Hoan, MA Akinlar, M Inc, JF Gómez-Aguilar… - Alexandria Engineering …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this paper, we propose a new SEIRS model and are concerned with stability and
numerical solutions of the model. The model is generated under certain assumptions such …

Probability of disease extinction or outbreak in a stochastic epidemic model for west nile virus dynamics in birds

M Maliyoni - Acta Biotheoretica, 2021 - Springer
Thresholds for disease extinction provide essential information for the prevention and
control of diseases. In this paper, a stochastic epidemic model, a continuous-time Markov …

Resistance, tolerance and environmental transmission dynamics determine host extinction risk in a load‐dependent amphibian disease

MQ Wilber, RA Knapp, M Toothman, CJ Briggs - Ecology letters, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
While disease‐induced extinction is generally considered rare, a number of recently
emerging infectious diseases with load‐dependent pathology have led to extinction in …

Solutions of a disease model with fractional white noise

MA Akinlar, M Inc, JF Gómez-Aguilar… - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2020 - Elsevier
We consider an epidemic disease system by an additive fractional white noise to show that
epidemic diseases may be more competently modeled in the fractional-stochastic settings …

[HTML][HTML] Nearly reducible finite Markov chains: Theory and algorithms

DJ Sharpe, DJ Wales - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Finite Markov chains, memoryless random walks on complex networks, appear commonly
as models for stochastic dynamics in condensed matter physics, biophysics, ecology …

Integer versus fractional order SEIR deterministic and stochastic models of measles

MR Islam, A Peace, D Medina, T Oraby - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
In this paper, we compare the performance between systems of ordinary and (Caputo)
fractional differential equations depicting the susceptible-exposed-infectious-recovered …