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A collection of methods for estimating the basic reproduction number (R0) of infectious diseases. Features a web application to interface with the estimators. Uses the models from: Fisman et al. (2013) doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0083622 , Bettencourt and Riberio (2008) doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0002185 , and White and Pagano (2008) doi:10.1002/sim.3136 . Includes datasets for Canadian national and provincial COVID-19 case counts provided by Berry et al. (2021) doi:10.1038/s41597-021-00955-2 .

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Maintainer: Naeem Model me@nmode.ca [copyright holder]

Authors:

  • Sawitree Boonpatcharanon [copyright holder]

  • Jane Heffernan [copyright holder]

  • Hanna Jankowski [copyright holder]

  • Tatiana Krikella [copyright holder]

Other contributors:

  • Kseniia Lipikhin [contributor, copyright holder]