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The Basic Reproduction Number as a Predictor for Epidemic Outbreaks in Temporal Networks

The basic reproduction number R (0)—the number of individuals directly infected by an infectious person in an otherwise susceptible population—is arguably the most widely used estimator of how severe an epidemic outbreak can be. This severity can be more directly measured as the fraction of people i...

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Autores principales: Holme, Petter, Masuda, Naoki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4368036/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25793764
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0120567