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Nonparametric serial interval estimation

2024-10-17 epidemiology Title + abstract only
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The serial interval of an infectious disease is a key instrument to understand transmission dynamics. Estimation of the serial interval distribution from illness onset data extracted from transmission pairs is challenging due to the presence of censoring and state-of-the-art frequentist or Bayesian methods mostly rely on parametric models. We present a fully data-driven methodology to estimate the serial interval distribution based on (coarse) serial interval data. The proposal combines a nonpar...

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