| Article ID: | iaor1990672 |
| Country: | Israel |
| Volume: | 26 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Start Page Number: | 1 |
| End Page Number: | 7 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 1989 |
| Journal: | Journal of Applied Probability |
| Authors: | Booth James G. . |
A generalization of Downton’s carrier-borne epidemic process is considered in which the assumption of homogeneous mixing is replaced by a general infection mechanism. Using a method and notation similar to that of Gani and Purdue, a recursive algorithm for the joint distribution of the total size and the total observed size of the epidemic is obtained.