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The age of infection model, first introduced by Kermack and McKendrick in 1927, is a general structure for compartmental epidemic models, including models with heterogeneous mixing. It is possible to estimate the basic reproduction number if the initial exponential growth rate and the infectivity as a function of time since being infected are known, and this is also possible for models with heterogeneous mixing.
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Brauer, F. (2016). Age of Infection Epidemic Models. In: Chowell, G., Hyman, J. (eds) Mathematical and Statistical Modeling for Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40413-4_13
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