Appropriately smoothing prevalence data to inform estimates of growth rate and reproduction number

Appropriately smoothing prevalence data to inform estimates of growth rate and reproduction number

The time-varying reproduction number (Rt) can change rapidly over the course of a pandemic due to changing restrictions, behaviours, and levels of population immunity. Many methods exist that allow the estimation of Rtfrom case data. However, these are not easily adapted to point prevalence data nor...

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Main Authors: Oliver Eales, Kylie E.C. Ainslie, Caroline E. Walters, Haowei Wang, Christina Atchison, Deborah Ashby, Christl A. Donnelly, Graham Cooke, Wendy Barclay, Helen Ward, Ara Darzi, Paul Elliott, Steven Riley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2022-09-01
Series:Epidemics
Subjects:
SARS-CoV-2
COVID-19
Bayesian P-spline
Cross-sectional study
Reproduction number
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755436522000482

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