An exact method for quantifying the reliability of end-of-epidemic declarations in real time.

We derive and validate a novel and analytic method for estimating the probability that an epidemic has been eliminated (i.e. that no future local cases will emerge) in real time. When this probability crosses 0.95 an outbreak can be declared over with 95% confidence. Our method is easy to compute, o...

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Main Authors: Kris V Parag, Christl A Donnelly, Rahul Jha, Robin N Thompson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-11-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008478&type=printable
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