Evaluating the use of social contact data to produce age-specific short-term forecasts of SARS-CoV-2 incidence in England.

Mathematical and statistical models can be used to make predictions of how epidemics may progress in the near future and form a central part of outbreak mitigation and control. Renewal equation based models allow inference of epidemiological parameters from historical data and forecast future epidem...

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Main Authors: James D Munday, Sam Abbott, Sophie Meakin, Sebastian Funk
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2023-09-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011453&type=printable