Estimating R_e and overdispersion in secondary cases from the size of identical sequence clusters of SARS-CoV-2

• Emma B Hodcroft ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Emma B Hodcroft, Martin S Wohlfender

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

  * E-mail: emma.hodcroft@unibas.ch

  Current Address: Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Allschwil, Switzerland

  Affiliations Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Multidisciplinary Center for Infectious Diseases, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0078-2212

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• Martin S Wohlfender ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Emma B Hodcroft, Martin S Wohlfender

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

  Affiliations Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Multidisciplinary Center for Infectious Diseases, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Graduate School for Cellular and Biomedical Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5252-0484

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• Richard A Neher,

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2525-1407

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• Julien Riou,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Multidisciplinary Center for Infectious Diseases, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Department of Epidemiology and Health Systems, Unisanté, Center for Primary Care and Public Health & University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

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• Christian L Althaus

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Multidisciplinary Center for Infectious Diseases, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5230-6760

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