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An optimal isolation policy for an epidemic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Andris Abakuks
Andris Abakuks*
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University of Sussex
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Abstract

Policies of isolating infectives in the general stochastic epidemic are considered. With costs assigned to the infection and isolation of individuals, an optimal policy is found, which at any stage minimises the expected future cost. An optimal policy is also found for the general deterministic epidemic and the two policies are compared. Finally, some numerical examples are provided.

Keywords

EPIDEMICCOSTEXPECTED FUTURE SIZEOPTIMAL ISOLATION POLICY
Type
Research Papers
Information
Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , June 1973 , pp. 247 - 262
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1973 

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