Estimating the measles effective reproduction number in Australia from routine notification data

• Main Authors: May Chiew (Author), Heather F Gidding (Author), Aditi Dey (Author), James Wood (Author), Nicolee Martin (Author), Stephanie Davis (Author), Peter McIntyre (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: The World Health Organization, 2014-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Objective To estimate the measles effective reproduction number (R) in Australia by modelling routinely collected notification data. Methods R was estimated for 2009-2011 by means of three methods, using data from Australia's National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System. Method 1 estimated R...