Estimating the epidemic reproduction number from temporally aggregated incidence data: A statistical modelling approach and software tool.

The time-varying reproduction number (Rt) is an important measure of epidemic transmissibility that directly informs policy decisions and the optimisation of control measures. EpiEstim is a widely used opensource software tool that uses case incidence and the serial interval (SI, time between sympto...

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Main Authors: Rebecca K Nash, Samir Bhatt, Anne Cori, Pierre Nouvellet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2023-08-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011439&type=printable
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