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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.
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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 | ||||
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| 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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| Volume: | 246 | ||||
| Number: | 1316 | ||||
| Number of Pages: | 6 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 179-184 | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published |
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