Was R < 1 before the English lockdowns? On modelling mechanistic detail, causality and inference about Covid-19

• Simon N. Wood ,

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

  * E-mail: simon.wood@ed.ac.uk

  Affiliation School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2034-7453

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• Ernst C. Wit

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Computing, Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland

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