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Estimation of safety areas for epidemic spread

Methodology 2009-11-02 v1 Statistics Theory Statistics Theory

Abstract

In this work we study safety areas in epidemic spred. The aim of this work is, given the evolution of epidemic at time tt, find a safety set at time t+ht+h. This is, a random set Kt+hK_{t+h} such that the probability that infection reaches Kt+hK_{t+h} at time t+ht+h is small. More precisely, inspired on the study of epidemic spread, we consider a model in which the measure μn(A)\mu_n(A) is the incidence -density of infectives individuals- in the set AA, at time nn and μn+1(A)(ω)=Sπn+1(A;s)(ω)μn(ds)(ω),foranyBorelsetA,\mu_{n+1}(A)(\omega)=\int_S{\pi_{n+1}(A;s)(\omega)\mu_n(ds)(\omega)}, {for any Borel set} A, with random transition kernels of the form πn(.;.)(ω)=Π(.;.)(ξn(ω),Yn(ω)),\pi_n(.;.)(\omega)=\Pi(.;.)(\xi_n(\omega),Y_n(\omega)), where ξ\xi, YY satisfy some ergodic conditions. The support of μn\mu_n is called SnS_n. We also assume that S0S_0 is compact with regular border and that for any x,yx,y the kernel Π(.;.)(x,y)\Pi(.;.)(x,y) has compact support. A random set Kn+1K_{n+1} is a safety area of level α\alpha if: [{ii)}] Kn+1K_{n+1} {\rm is a function of} S0,S1,...,Sn.S_0, S_1, ...,S_n. [{iiii)}] P(Kn+1Sn+1)α.P(K_{n+1} \cap S_{n+1} \neq \emptyset)\leq \alpha. We present a method to find these safety areas and some related results.

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@article{arxiv.0910.5872,
  title  = {Estimation of safety areas for epidemic spread},
  author = {Beatriz Marron and Ana Tablar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.5872},
  year   = {2009}
}

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