Assessing the heterogeneity in the transmission of infectious diseases from time series of epidemiological data.

Structural features and the heterogeneity of disease transmissions play an essential role in the dynamics of epidemic spread. But these aspects can not completely be assessed from aggregate data or macroscopic indicators such as the effective reproduction number. We propose in this paper an index of...

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Main Authors: Günter Schneckenreither, Lukas Herrmann, Rafael Reisenhofer, Niki Popper, Philipp Grohs
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2023-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0286012