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Characterizing the reproduction number of epidemics with early sub-exponential growth dynamics
Gerardo Chowell, Cécile Viboud, Lone Simonsen +1
Early estimates of the transmission potential of emerging and re-emerging infections are increasingly used to inform public health authorities on the level of risk posed by outbrea…
q-bio.QM2016
A generalized-growth model to characterize the early ascending phase of infectious disease outbreaks
Cécile Viboud, Lone Simonsen, Gerardo Chowell
A better characterization of the early growth dynamics of an epidemic is needed to dissect the important drivers of disease transmission. We introduce a 2-parameter generalized-gro…