Dunstan, R2017-11-272017-11-271981b1258119http://hdl.handle.net/1885/136149With the exception of the final chapter, this thesis is concerned with the general epidemic model and some simple extensions of it. The main concern is with the stochastic case and the deterministic model is only of interest when it is useful in constructing approximations to the stochastic model or in providing insights into its behaviour.131 leavesenStochastic analysisEpidemics198110.25911/5d70f2e69942e2017-10-23