| Article ID: | iaor2000590 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 35 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Start Page Number: | 662 |
| End Page Number: | 670 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 1998 |
| Journal: | Journal of Applied Probability |
| Authors: | Andersson Hkan, Djehiche Boualem |
| Keywords: | medicine |
The time until extinction for the closed SIS stochastic logistic epidemic model is investigated. We derive the asymptotic distribution for the extinction time as the population grows to infinity, under different initial conditions and for different values of the infection rate.