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The Incidence Decay (ID) estimator uses the method of least squares to estimate <em>R</em><sub>0</sub>.
This method assumes the serial interval is known, and is built under the SIR assumption.
We note that the use of this method might result in the underestimation of <em>R</em><sub>0</sub>.