Estimating the basic reproduction number at the beginning of an outbreak.

We compare several popular methods of estimating the basic reproduction number, R0, focusing on the early stages of an epidemic, and assuming weekly reports of new infecteds. We study the situation when data is generated by one of three standard epidemiological compartmental models: SIR, SEIR, and S...

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Main Authors: Sawitree Boonpatcharanon, Jane M Heffernan, Hanna Jankowski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0269306

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