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Area of Science:

  • Epidemiology
  • Mathematical Biology
  • Infectious Disease Dynamics

Background:

  • Many infectious diseases exhibit subcritical transmission (0
  • Estimating the basic reproduction number (R0) is critical for monitoring disease emergence risk.
  • Imperfect case detection complicates R0 estimation, leading to various workaround methods with potential biases.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To quantitatively compare existing R0 estimation methods under imperfect detection.
  • To analyze the impact of transmission heterogeneity on R0 estimation bias.
  • To provide a unified analysis of R0 inference methods for stuttering chains.

Main Methods:

  • Adapted a negative binomial offspring distribution model to allow variable transmission heterogeneity.
  • Conducted simulation studies to assess R0 estimation biases under different conditions.
  • Analyzed measles outbreak data to evaluate model performance.

Main Results:

  • Improperly modeled transmission heterogeneity significantly biases R0 estimation with imperfect observation.
  • Isolated cases are crucial for assessing the consistency of estimation techniques.
  • Models allowing flexible transmission heterogeneity performed best on measles outbreak data.

Conclusions:

  • Flexible modeling of transmission heterogeneity is key for accurate R0 estimation.
  • Aggregating chains can be effective, but truncating isolated cases is context-dependent.
  • Future work should focus on quantifying observation error for improved R0 inference.