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Early Estimation of the Reproduction Number in the Presence of Imported Cases: Pandemic Influenza H1N1-2009 in New Zealand

We analyse data from the early epidemic of H1N1-2009 in New Zealand, and estimate the reproduction number [Image: see text]. We employ a renewal process which accounts for imported cases, illustrate some technical pitfalls, and propose a novel estimation method to address these pitfalls. Explicitly...

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Autores principales: Roberts, Michael George, Nishiura, Hiroshi
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3102662/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21637342
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0017835