Stochastic monotonicity and continuity properties of functions defined on Crump–Mode–Jagers branching processes, with application to vaccination in epidemic modelling
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FRANK BALL, MIGUEL GONZÁLEZ, RODRIGO MARTÍNEZ and MAROUSSIA SLAVTCHOVA-BOJKOVA School of Mathematical Sciences, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, United Kingdom. E-mail: [email protected] Department of Mathematics, University of Extremadura, Avda, Elvas s/n, 06071-Badajoz, Spain. E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected] Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Sofia University and Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria. E-mail: [email protected]
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تاریخ انتشار 2014