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cord-018438-1tkevj8v	Edholm, Christina J.	Searching for Superspreaders: Identifying Epidemic Patterns Associated with Superspreading Events in Stochastic Models	2018-10-25		.txt	text/plain	6319	390	57	Specifically, we aim to study the disease dynamics in a heterogeneous population consisting of SS and NS individuals, and develop a deterministic model based on ordinary differential equations (ODEs) which is expanded to a stochastic model that is implemented as a continuous-time Markov chain (CTMC) system and approximated by a multitype branching process [1, 2] . In fact, the stochastic threshold (i.e., probability of a disease outbreak) is directly related to the basic reproduction number as defined in Table 3 State transitions and rates for the CTMC model with Poisson rates Similarly, we find that the time to outbreak-where an outbreak is defined as 50 or more people in all of the E, A, and I classes-is reduced when the initial infected individual in a simulated MERS or Ebola disease situation is an SS rather than an NS (Fig. 7a, c) .	./cache/cord-018438-1tkevj8v.txt	./txt/cord-018438-1tkevj8v.txt