An IDEA for short term outbreak projection: Nearcasting using the basic reproduction number

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Fisman, David N ^a,b   Hauck, Tanya S ^a   Tuite, Ashleigh R ^a,b   Greer, Amy L ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Decision Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology (DeCIDE)   (Canada)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIC REPRODUCTION NUMBER; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FORECASTING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NUNAVUT;

EID: 84894244450     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0083622     Document Type: Article

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