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title of the paper: Inference of R0 and Transmission Heterogeneity from the Size Distribution of Stuttering Chains

doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002993

keywords: dispersion, estimation, final size, chain

Parameters: r0, dispersion

software:

• n/a (Matlab)

Example papers:

• https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES2015.20.25.21167
• https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2108.150170
• https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epidem.2016.04.002
• https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-020-1092-0

Links:

• https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002993

Content

From the paper:

“For many infectious disease processes such as emerging zoonoses and vaccine-preventable diseases, 0<R0<1 and infections occur as self-limited stuttering transmission chains. Utilizing branching process theory along with a negative binomial offspring distribution, we demonstrate how maximum likelihood estimation can be applied to chain size data to infer both R0 and the dispersion parameter that characterizes heterogeneity.”

original entry: https://github.com/UT-IDDynamics/wepidemics/blob/main/data/stuttering-chains.md