A generating function perspective on the transmission forest
In a previous paper, we showed that a compartmental stochastic process model of SARS-CoV-2 transmission could be fit to time series data and then reinterpreted as a collection of interacting branching processes drawn from a dynamic degree distribution. We called this reinterpretation a transmission forest. This paper builds on that idea. Specifically, leveraging generating function methods from analytic combinatorics, we develop a theory describing the transmission forest's properties, allowing us to show for example that transmission tree interactions fade with increasing disease prevalence. We then validate the theory by computing forest statistics, like the tree survival function, which we compare to estimates based on the sampling method developed previously. The accuracy and flexibility of the analytic approach is clear, and it allows us to comment on multi-scale features of more general transmission processes.
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