PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Thomas House TI - Fast Non-Parametric Estimation of Outbreak Growth from Cumulative Incidence Applied to the Current Ebola Epidemic AID - 10.1101/340067 DP - 2018 Jan 01 TA - bioRxiv PG - 340067 4099 - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/06/08/340067.short 4100 - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/06/08/340067.full AB - A method is presented that works with cumulative incidence data to provide a real-time estimate of the growth rate of an outbreak, without assuming any particular disease dynamics, and this is applied to the current Ebola outbreak.