A new method for the joint estimation of instantaneous reproductive number and serial interval during epidemics

• Chenxi Dai,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, China

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• Dongsheng Zhou,

  Roles Investigation, Software, Visualization

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, China

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• Bo Gao ,

  Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: gb5029@hotmail.com (BG); kfwang72@163.com (KW).

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, China

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• Kaifa Wang

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: gb5029@hotmail.com (BG); kfwang72@163.com (KW).

  Affiliation School of Mathematics and Statistics, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6787-5018

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