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Effective reproduction numbers are commonly overestimated early in a disease outbreak

G N Mercer1, K Glass, N G Becker

  • 1National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia. Geoff.Mercer@anu.edu.au

Statistics in Medicine
|February 2, 2011
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