Data-driven outbreak forecasting with a simple nonlinear growth model

Recent events have thrown the spotlight on infectious disease outbreak response. We developed a data-driven method, EpiGro, which can be applied to cumulative case reports to estimate the order of magnitude of the duration, peak and ultimate size of an ongoing outbreak. It is based on a surprisingly...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lega, Joceline, Brown, Heidi E.
Other Authors: Univ Arizona
Language:en
Published: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/622814
http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/622814