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Compound Poisson limits for household epidemics. / Neal, Peter John.
In: Journal of Applied Probability, Vol. 42, No. 2, 2005, p. 334-345.

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Neal PJ. Compound Poisson limits for household epidemics. Journal of Applied Probability. 2005;42(2):334-345.

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Neal, Peter John. / Compound Poisson limits for household epidemics. In: Journal of Applied Probability. 2005 ; Vol. 42, No. 2. pp. 334-345.

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