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CHAOTIC STOCHASTICITY - A UBIQUITOUS SOURCE OF UNPREDICTABILITY IN EPIDEMICS

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UNSPECIFIED (1991) CHAOTIC STOCHASTICITY - A UBIQUITOUS SOURCE OF UNPREDICTABILITY IN EPIDEMICS. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 246 (1316). pp. 179-184. ISSN 0962-8452.

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Abstract

We address the question of whether or not childhood epidemics such as measles and chickenpox are chaotic, and argue that the best explanation of the observed unpredictability is that it is a manifestation of what we call chaotic stochasticity. Such chaos is driven and made permanent by the fluctuations from the mean field encountered in epidemics, or by extrinsic stochastic noise, and is dependent upon the existence of chaotic repellors in the mean field dynamics. Its existence is also a consequence of the near extinctions in the epidemic. For such systems, chaotic stochasticity is likely to be far more ubiquitous than the presence of deterministic chaotic attractors. It is likely to be a common phenomenon in biological dynamics.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: Q Science > QH Natural history > QH301 Biology
Journal or Publication Title: PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Publisher: ROYAL SOC LONDON
ISSN: 0962-8452
Official Date: 22 November 1991
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22 November 1991UNSPECIFIED
Volume: 246
Number: 1316
Number of Pages: 6
Page Range: pp. 179-184
Publication Status: Published

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