Table 2.

Estimation of the basic reproduction number ${\mathcal{R}}_0$ using our method and Bettencourt and Ribeiro¹¹.

	Current method	Bettencourt and Ribeiro11
Denmark	9.6 [95% CI 7.7–11.4]	8.6 [95% CI 6.7–10.5]
Sweden	5.4 [95% CI 4.9–6.4]	6.5 [95% CI 3.3–9.6]
Norway	5.2 [95% CI 4.2–6.1]	4.6 [95% CI 1.3–7.9]