The effect of superinfection on the distribution of the infectious period--a continued fraction approximation.
It has been shown that the density function of the duration of infection in a superinfection malaria model can be approximated by a mixture of exponential density functions. This is achieved by an application of continued fractions. Numerical calculations and graphs illustrate that this approach is effective.
Parthasarathy
P R
PR
Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India.
D006801:Humans; D008288:Malaria / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D008433:Mathematics; D008954:Models, Biological; D011338:Probability Theory; D013269:Stochastic Processes; D015163:Superinfection / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology*; D013997:Time Factors