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For many endemic infections,\n                    <jats:italic>R<\/jats:italic>\n                    <jats:sub>\n                      <jats:italic>0<\/jats:italic>\n                    <\/jats:sub>\n                    is often estimated from appropriate country-specific seroprevalence data. Studies sometimes pool estimates from the same region for settings lacking seroprevalence data, but the reliability of this approach is unclear. Plausibly, indicator-based approaches could predict\n                    <jats:italic>R<\/jats:italic>\n                    <jats:sub>\n                      <jats:italic>0<\/jats:italic>\n                    <\/jats:sub>\n                    for such settings. We calculated\n                    <jats:italic>R<\/jats:italic>\n                    <jats:sub>\n                      <jats:italic>0<\/jats:italic>\n                    <\/jats:sub>\n                    for rubella for 98 settings and correlated its value against 66 demographic, economic, education, housing and health-related indicators. We also trained a random forest regression algorithm using these indicators as the input and\n                    <jats:italic>R<\/jats:italic>\n                    <jats:sub>\n                      <jats:italic>0<\/jats:italic>\n                    <\/jats:sub>\n                    as the output. We used the mean-square error to compare the performances of the random forest, simple linear regression and a regional averaging method in predicting\n                    <jats:italic>R<\/jats:italic>\n                    <jats:sub>\n                      <jats:italic>0<\/jats:italic>\n                    <\/jats:sub>\n                    using 4-fold cross validation.\n                    <jats:italic>R<\/jats:italic>\n                    <jats:sub>\n                      <jats:italic>0<\/jats:italic>\n                    <\/jats:sub>\n                    was &lt;5, 5\u201310 and &gt;10 for 81, 14 and 3 settings respectively, with no apparent regional differences and in the limited available data, it was usually lower for rural than urban areas.\n                    <jats:italic>R<\/jats:italic>\n                    <jats:sub>\n                      <jats:italic>0<\/jats:italic>\n                    <\/jats:sub>\n                    was most correlated with educational attainment, and household indicators for the Pearson and Spearman correlation coefficients respectively and with poverty-related indicators followed by the crude death rate considering the Maximum Information Coefficient, although the correlation for each was relatively weak (Pearson correlation coefficient: 0.4, 95%CI: (0.24,0.48) for educational attainment). A random forest did not perform better in predicting\n                    <jats:italic>R<\/jats:italic>\n                    <jats:sub>\n                      <jats:italic>0<\/jats:italic>\n                    <\/jats:sub>\n                    than simple linear regression, depending on the subsets of training indicators and studies, and neither out-performed a regional averaging approach.\n                    <jats:italic>R<\/jats:italic>\n                    <jats:sub>\n                      <jats:italic>0<\/jats:italic>\n                    <\/jats:sub>\n                    for rubella is typically low and using indicators to estimate its value is not straightforward. A regional averaging approach may provide as reliable an estimate of\n                    <jats:italic>R<\/jats:italic>\n                    <jats:sub>\n                      <jats:italic>0<\/jats:italic>\n                    <\/jats:sub>\n                    for settings lacking seroprevalence data as one based on indicators. 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