Estimation of heterogeneous instantaneous reproduction numbers with application to characterize SARS-CoV-2 transmission in Massachusetts counties

• Zhenwei Zhou ,

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

  * E-mail: zwzhou@bu.edu (ZZ); lfwhite@bu.edu (LFW)

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9424-7826

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• Eric D. Kolaczyk,

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

  Affiliations Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3376-626X

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• Robin N. Thompson,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Mathematics Institute and SBIDER, University of Warwick, Coventry, England, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8545-5212

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• Laura F. White

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

  * E-mail: zwzhou@bu.edu (ZZ); lfwhite@bu.edu (LFW)

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0588-8235

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