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Mashup Score: 63Real-life use cases for serofoi - 1 month(s) ago
serofoi
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Mashup Score: 6
R package to calculate the final size of an SIR epidemic in populations with heterogeneity in social contacts and disease susceptibility – epiverse-trace/finalsize
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Mashup Score: 32On the relationship between serial interval, infectiousness profile and generation time | Journal of The Royal Society Interface - 1 month(s) ago
The timing of transmission plays a key role in the dynamics and controllability of an epidemic. However, observing generation times—the time interval between the infection of an infector and an infectee in a transmission pair—requires data on infection …
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Mashup Score: 413Common statistical tests are linear models (or: how to teach stats) - 1 month(s) ago
This document is summarised in the table below. It shows the linear models underlying common parametric and “non-parametric” tests. Formulating all the tests in the same language highlights the many similarities between them. Get it as an image or as a PDF. Most of the common statistical models (t-test, correlation, ANOVA; chi-square, etc.) are special cases of linear models or a very close approximation. This beautiful simplicity means that there is less to learn. In particular, it all comes down to (y
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Mashup Score: 21Job Opportunity at LSHTM: Research Software Engineer - 1 month(s) ago
The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is one of the world’s leading public health universities. Our mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working in partnership to achieve excellence in…
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Mashup Score: 10Understanding the unseen | Adam Kucharski | Substack - 1 month(s) ago
Analysis and discussion covering epidemiology, statistics and science communication from the author of ‘The Rules of Contagion’ and ‘The Perfect Bet’. Click to read Understanding the unseen, by Adam Kucharski, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
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Mashup Score: 13Albert Einstein: What did he think of peer review? - 1 month(s) ago
Albert Einstein was the father of modern physics whose ideas would stand up to the most exacting peer review…
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Mashup Score: 2Lassa fever outbreaks, mathematical models, and disease parameters: a systematic review and meta-analysis - 1 month(s) ago
Background Lassa fever, caused by Lassa virus (LASV), poses a significant public health threat in West Africa. Understanding the epidemiological parameters and transmission dynamics of LASV is crucial for informing evidence-based interventions and outbreak response strategies. Methods We conducted a systematic review (PROSPERO CRD42023393345) to compile and analyse key epidemiological parameters, mathematical models, and past outbreaks of LASV. Data were double extracted from published literature, focusing on past outbreaks, seroprevalence, transmissibility, epidemiological delays, and disease severity. Findings We found 157 publications meeting our inclusion criteria and extracted 374 relevant parameter estimates. Although LASV is endemic in West Africa, spatiotemporal coverage of recent seroprevalence estimates, ranging from 0.06% to 35%, was poor. Highlighting the uncertainty in LASV risk spatially. Similarly, only two basic reproduction number estimates at 1.13 and 1.19 were availa
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Mashup Score: 10Understanding the unseen | Adam Kucharski | Substack - 1 month(s) ago
Analysis and discussion covering epidemiology, statistics and science communication from the author of ‘The Rules of Contagion’ and ‘The Perfect Bet’. Click to read Understanding the unseen, by Adam Kucharski, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
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Mashup Score: 102Inference of epidemic dynamics in the COVID-19 era and beyond - 1 month(s) ago
The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated the key role that epidemiology and modelling play in analysing infectious threats and supporting decision making in real-time. Motivated by the unprecedented volume and breadth of data generated during the pandemic, we review new analytic opportunities and methodological developments available to address questions that emerge during a major modern epidemic. Following the broad chronology of insights required – from understanding initial dynamics to retrospective evaluation of interventions, we describe the theoretical foundations of each approach and the underlying intuition. Through a series of case studies, we illustrate real life applications, and discuss implications for future work.
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COVID generated an unprecedented volume of questions - but also new data and methodology. To bring together these developments in inference of disease dynamics in the modern era, @dr_anne_cori and I put together a new review (including 21 case studies): https://t.co/RgywebynIs https://t.co/QhABD4335Z
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And if you’re interested in analysing antibody data for Chagas to uncover transmission patterns over time, see this case study (and accompanying R package) by @ZulmaCucunuba and co: https://t.co/WSmUG2acNo https://t.co/lJhtnoR78Y https://t.co/IrAd0Ha7XP