Evidence map›Paper›PMID 37752839›Full record

ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2023

Angular reproduction numbers improve estimates of transmissibility when disease generation times are misspecified or time-varying.

Kris V Parag, Benjamin J Cowling, Ben C Lambert

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Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Kris V ParagMRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, Imperial College London, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-7806-3605
Benjamin J CowlingWHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control, School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Hong Kong.ORCID 0000-0002-6297-7154
Ben C LambertDepartment of Mathematics, College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-4274-4158

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/R015600/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We introduce the

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Disease OutbreaksEpidemicsBasic Reproduction NumberSoftwareepidemic modelsgeneration timesgrowth ratesinfectious diseasesreproduction numberstransmission dynamics

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PMID37752839
PMCPMC10523088

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