Intervention-Based Stochastic Disease Eradication

Lora Billings; Luis Mier-y-Teran-Romero; Brandon Lindley; Ira B. Schwartz

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0070211

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Intervention-Based Stochastic Disease Eradication

Lora Billings ,

* E-mail: billingsl@mail.montclair.edu

Affiliation Department of Mathematical Sciences, Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jerey, United States of America
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Luis Mier-y-Teran-Romero,

Affiliations U. S. Naval Research Laboratory, Nonlinear System Dynamics Section, Plasma Physics Division, Washington, DC, United States of America, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of International Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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Brandon Lindley,

Affiliation U. S. Naval Research Laboratory, Nonlinear System Dynamics Section, Plasma Physics Division, Washington, DC, United States of America
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Ira B. Schwartz

Affiliation U. S. Naval Research Laboratory, Nonlinear System Dynamics Section, Plasma Physics Division, Washington, DC, United States of America
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Intervention-Based Stochastic Disease Eradication

Lora Billings,
Luis Mier-y-Teran-Romero,
Brandon Lindley,
Ira B. Schwartz

Published: August 5, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0070211

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