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@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Authors@R: c(
          email = "sonja.jaeckle@mevis.fraunhofer.de"),
   person("Rieke", "Alpers", role = c("aut"),
          email = "rieke.alpers@mevis.fraunhofer.de"))
-Description: Implements statistical models and visualizations to support decision making by health authorities w.r.t. the COVID-19 pandemic. 
+Description: Statistical modelling for infectious disease management (smidm). We developed models for specific coronavirus disease 2019 use cases at German health authorities, which are part of the decision support toolkit in the EsteR project. More information is published in EsteR – A Digital Toolkit for COVID-19 Decision Support in Local Health Authorities <doi:10.3233/SHTI220799> and A Statistical Model to Assess Risk for Supporting COVID-19 Quarantine Decisions <doi:10.3390/ijerph18179166>.
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