Early Real-Time Estimation of the Basic Reproduction Number of Emerging Infectious Diseases
When an infectious disease strikes a population, the number of newly reported cases is often the only available information during the early stages of the outbreak. An important goal of early outbreak analysis is to obtain a reliable estimate for the basic reproduction number, R_{0}. Over the past f...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Physical Society
2012-07-01
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| Series: | Physical Review X |
| Online Access: | http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.2.031005 |