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Quantifying Transmission Heterogeneity Using Both Pathogen Phylogenies and Incidence Time Series

Heterogeneity in individual-level transmissibility can be quantified by the dispersion parameter [Formula: see text] of the offspring distribution. Quantifying heterogeneity is important as it affects other parameter estimates, it modulates the degree of unpredictability of an epidemic, and it needs...

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Autores principales: Li, Lucy M., Grassly, Nicholas C., Fraser, Christophe
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5850343/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28981709
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msx195