Early real-time estimation of the basic reproduction number of emerging infectious diseases

Physical Review X

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Davoudi, Bahman ^a   Miller, Joel C ^b   Meza, Rafael ^a   Meyers, Lauren Ancel ^c   Earn, David J D ^d   Pourbohloul, Babak ^a,e  

^a BRITISH COLUMBIA CENTRE FOR DISEASE CONTROL   (Canada)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIC REPRODUCTION NUMBER; CONTACT NETWORKS; DEGREE DISTRIBUTIONS; EPIDEMIC PROCESS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; INFECTIOUS PERIOD; INITIAL STAGES; PHYSICS COMMUNITY; POLICY MAKERS; REAL-TIME ESTIMATION; RELIABLE ESTIMATES;

ESTIMATION;

DISEASE CONTROL;

EID: 84872372723     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.2.031005     Document Type: Article

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