doi: 10.1023/a:1016599411804.
A brief history of R0 and a recipe for its calculation
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A brief history of R0 and a recipe for its calculation
Acta Biotheor.
2002.
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- Acta Biotheor. 2002;50(4):375-6.
Abstract
In this paper I present the genesis of R0 in demography, ecology and epidemiology, from embryo to its current adult form. I argue on why it has taken so long for the concept to mature in epidemiology when there were ample opportunities for cross-fertilisation from demography and ecology from where it reached adulthood fifty years earlier. Today, R0 is a more fully developed adult in epidemiology than in demography. In the final section I give an algorithm for its calculation in heterogeneous populations.
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