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We now turn our attention to the population level dynamics and ask phenomenological questions. First, many important measures in the study of infectious diseases are count variables N, taking integer values n = 0, 1, 2, ….
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Yan, P., Chowell, G. (2019). Random Counts and Counting Processes. In: Quantitative Methods for Investigating Infectious Disease Outbreaks. Texts in Applied Mathematics, vol 70. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21923-9_3
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