Small, Michael; Tse, C.K. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 351 (2005) 2, pp. 499-511
We propose a new four state model for disease transmission and illustrate the model with data from the 2003 SARS epidemic in Hong Kong. The critical feature of this model is that the community is modelled as a small-world network of interconnected nodes. Each node is linked to a fixed number of...