Estimating the basic reproduction number at the beginning of an outbreak

• Sawitree Boonpatcharanon ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sawitree Boonpatcharanon, Jane M. Heffernan, Hanna Jankowski

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

  Affiliation Department of Statistics, Chulalongkorn Business School, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8723-9695

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• Jane M. Heffernan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sawitree Boonpatcharanon, Jane M. Heffernan, Hanna Jankowski

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

  * E-mail: jmheffer@yorku.ca

  Affiliations Mathematics & Statistics, York University, Toronto, Canada, Centre for Disease Modelling, York University, Toronto, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9502-1688

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• Hanna Jankowski

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sawitree Boonpatcharanon, Jane M. Heffernan, Hanna Jankowski

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

  Affiliations Mathematics & Statistics, York University, Toronto, Canada, Centre for Disease Modelling, York University, Toronto, Canada

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