Revisiting R[subscript 0], the Basic Reproductive Number for Pandemic Influenza
This paper focuses on a fundamental input parameter for most existing mathematical models of pandemic influenza, the ‘basic reproductive number R[subscript 0],’ defined to be the mean number of new influenza infections created by a newly infected person in a population of all susceptible people. We...
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Format: | Working Paper |
Language: | en_US |
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division
2016
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/102864 |