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The Effective Reproduction Number as a Prelude to Statistical Estimation of Time-Dependent Epidemic Trends

Although the basic reproduction number, R (0), is useful for understanding the transmissibility of a disease and designing various intervention strategies, the classic threshold quantity theoretically assumes that the epidemic first occurs in a fully susceptible population, and hence, R (0) is essen...

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Autores principales: Nishiura, Hiroshi, Chowell, Gerardo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7121794/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2313-1_5

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