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ArticleInfectious Disease Modelling2023

Estimating the instantaneous reproduction number (

Yong Sul Won, Woo-Sik Son, Sunhwa Choi, Jong-Hoon Kim

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Article in Infectious Disease Modelling, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Machine learning and probabilistic approaches for forecasting infectious disease transmission and cases.International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases · 2026
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  3. Data assimilation for estimating time-varying reproduction numbers.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2025
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  5. A novel approach to estimatingFrontiers in public health · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Yong Sul WonNational Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Daejeon, South Korea.
Woo-Sik SonNational Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Daejeon, South Korea.
Sunhwa ChoiNational Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Daejeon, South Korea.
Jong-Hoon KimInternational Vaccine Institute, Seoul, South Korea.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Monitoring the transmission of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) requires accurate estimation of the effective reproduction number ( Method: To include real-world factors, we expanded the susceptible-exposed-infectious-recovered (SEIR) model by incorporating pre-symptomatic (P) and asymptomatic (A) states, creating the SEPIAR model. By utilizing both stochastic and deterministic versions of the model, and incorporating predetermined time series of Results: The particle filtering method accurately estimated Conclusions: The SEPIAR model, in conjunction with the particle filtering method, offers a reliable tool for predicting the transmission trend of COVID-19 and assessing the impact of intervention strategies. This approach enables enhanced monitoring of COVID-19 transmission and can inform public health policies aimed at controlling the spread of the disease.

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Compartment modelCOVID-19Effective reproduction numberParticle filterSequential Monte CarloTransmission model

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PMID37649793
PMCPMC10463196

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