This article explains k and r0 quite well, and is fairly short: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3680036/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/

This article explains k and r0 quite well, and is fairly short: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3680036/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3680036/ See also: * https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7094981/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7094981/ There is a summary of a lot of this article here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superspreader https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superspreader This Wikipedia article covers what the article means when describing the distribution of v as 'overdispersed': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overdispersion#Poisson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overdispersion#Poisson * https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022519311005625 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002251931... * https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0000180 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...