Why are different estimates of the effective reproductive number so different? A case study on COVID-19 in Germany

• Elisabeth K. Brockhaus ,

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

  * E-mail: elisabeth.brockhaus@outlook.de (EKB); johannes.bracher@kit.edu (JB)

  Affiliation Chair of Statistical Methods and Econometrics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0009-0005-1827-8670

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• Daniel Wolffram,

  Roles Data curation, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Chair of Statistical Methods and Econometrics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany, Computational Statistics Group, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS), Heidelberg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0318-3669

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• Tanja Stadler,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich, Basel, Switzerland, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland

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• Michael Osthege,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, IBG-1: Biotechnology, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany, Institute of Biotechnology, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2734-7624

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• Tanmay Mitra,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Systems Immunology and Braunschweig Integrated Centre of Systems Biology (BRICS), Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany, Current address: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Nuffield Department of Orthopedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4136-4834

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• Jonas M. Littek,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Chair of Statistical Methods and Econometrics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany

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• Ekaterina Krymova,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Swiss Data Science Center, EPF Lausanne and ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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• Anna J. Klesen,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Chair of Statistical Methods and Econometrics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany

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• Jana S. Huisman,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich, Basel, Switzerland, Physics of Living Systems, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1782-8109

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• Stefan Heyder,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Mathematics, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Ilmenau, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3371-4072

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• Laura M. Helleckes,

  Roles Data curation, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, IBG-1: Biotechnology, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany, Institute of Biotechnology, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7825-7998

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• Matthias an der Heiden,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

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• Sebastian Funk,

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Centre for Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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• Sam Abbott,

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Centre for Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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• Johannes Bracher

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: elisabeth.brockhaus@outlook.de (EKB); johannes.bracher@kit.edu (JB)

  Affiliations Chair of Statistical Methods and Econometrics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany, Computational Statistics Group, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS), Heidelberg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3777-1410

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