The calculations are detailed in the method section, in the paragraph
called "R0 calculation". The methodology is well detailed in
quantitative epidemiology textbooks and well-explained examples can be
found in
P. van den Driessche & J. Watmough, "Reproduction numbers and
sub-threshold endemic equilibriam for compartmental models of disease
transmission", Mathematical Biosciences 2002
P. van den Driessche, "Reproduction numbers of infectious disease models", Infectious disease modelling, 2017
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Champagne, C., Salthouse, D. G., Paul, R., Cao-Lormeau, V., Roche, B. and Cazelles, B.(2016). Structure in the variability of the basic reproductive number (R0) for Zika epidemics in the Pacific islands. eLife. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.19874
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