Using early detection data to estimate the date of emergence of an epidemic outbreak

• Sofía Jijón ,

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

  * E-mail: sofia.jijon@gmail.com (SJ); florence.debarre@normalesup.org (FD)

  Affiliation Institute of ecology and environmental sciences of Paris (iEES-Paris, UMR 7618), Sorbonne Université, CNRS, UPEC, IRD, INRAE, Paris, France

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1292-0512

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• Peter Czuppon,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

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• François Blanquart,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Biology, CNRS, Collège de France, PSL Research University, Paris, France

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• Florence Débarre

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sofia.jijon@gmail.com (SJ); florence.debarre@normalesup.org (FD)

  Affiliation Institute of ecology and environmental sciences of Paris (iEES-Paris, UMR 7618), Sorbonne Université, CNRS, UPEC, IRD, INRAE, Paris, France

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2497-833X

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