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A generalized-growth model to characterize the early ascending phase of infectious disease outbreaks

BACKGROUND: A better characterization of the early growth dynamics of an epidemic is needed to dissect the important drivers of disease transmission, refine existing transmission models, and improve disease forecasts. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We introduce a 2-parameter generalized-growth model to char...

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Autores principales: Viboud, Cécile, Simonsen, Lone, Chowell, Gerardo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4903879/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27266847
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epidem.2016.01.002