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Interplay of Generation Time and Spatial Structure in Epidemic Dynamics and the Reliability of Reproduction Ratio Estimates

2025-09-04

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The reproduction ratio R is a central metric for monitoring infectious disease epidemics and guiding public health interventions. It is typically inferred from population-level surveillance data, but such estimates can be biased by the spatial structure of the underlying population and by complexities in disease natural history. Here, we develop a theoretical framework to study how the distribution of the generati...

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Literature Corpus work: 38be8533-282c-5fb1-a14f-1dc41f6d1269
DOI: 10.1101/2025.09.02.25334936

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