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cord-329256-7njgmdd1	Leecaster, Molly	Modeling the variations in pediatric respiratory syncytial virus seasonal epidemics	2011-04-21		.txt	text/plain	4534	228	48	METHODS: The goals of this research were to examine the empirical relationships among early exponential growth rate, total epidemic size, and timing, and the utility of specific parameters in compartmental models of transmission in accounting for variation among seasonal RSV epidemic curves. A compartmental model of transmission was fit to the data and parameter estimated used to help describe the variation among seasonal RSV epidemic curves. Regression analysis was used to explore the relationship between the initial exponential growth rate and the epidemic season characteristics of size, days to peak, and length using the seven epidemic seasons of RSV data from PCMC. The fit statistics for the models with either transmission parameter or Table 1 Observed RSV epidemic size, start date, days to peak, duration, and 4-week exponential growth detection fraction estimated as a constant across epidemic year did not differ substantially from those from the saturated model (Table 4) .	./cache/cord-329256-7njgmdd1.txt	./txt/cord-329256-7njgmdd1.txt