A guide to state–space modeling of ecological time series

M Auger‐Méthé, K Newman, D Cole… - Ecological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
State–space models (SSMs) are an important modeling framework for analyzing ecological
time series. These hierarchical models are commonly used to model population dynamics …

Quantifying asymptomatic infection and transmission of COVID-19 in New York City using observed cases, serology, and testing capacity

R Subramanian, Q He… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The contributions of asymptomatic infections to herd immunity and community transmission
are key to the resurgence and control of COVID-19, but are difficult to estimate using current …

Estimation of the time-varying reproduction number of COVID-19 outbreak in China

C You, Y Deng, W Hu, J Sun, Q Lin, F Zhou… - International journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background The 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in Wuhan, China has
attracted world-wide attention. As of March 31, 2020, a total of 82,631 cases of COVID-19 in …

State‐space models for ecological time‐series data: Practical model‐fitting

K Newman, R King, V Elvira… - Methods in Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
State‐space models are an increasingly common and important tool in the quantitative
ecologists' armoury, particularly for the analysis of time‐series data. This is due to both their …

Statistical inference for partially observed Markov processes via the R package pomp

AA King, D Nguyen, EL Ionides - arxiv preprint arxiv:1509.00503, 2015 - arxiv.org
Partially observed Markov process (POMP) models, also known as hidden Markov models
or state space models, are ubiquitous tools for time series analysis. The R package pomp …

Real-time pandemic surveillance using hospital admissions and mobility data

SJ Fox, M Lachmann, M Tec, R Pasco… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Forecasting the burden of COVID-19 has been impeded by limitations in data, with case
reporting biased by testing practices, death counts lagging far behind infections, and …

Avoidable errors in the modelling of outbreaks of emerging pathogens, with special reference to Ebola

AA King, M Domenech de Cellès… - … of the Royal …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
As an emergent infectious disease outbreak unfolds, public health response is reliant on
information on key epidemiological quantities, such as transmission potential and serial …

Epidemiology of the silent polio outbreak in Rahat, Israel, based on modeling of environmental surveillance data

AF Brouwer, JNS Eisenberg… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Israel experienced an outbreak of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) in 2013–2014, detected
through environmental surveillance of the sewage system. No cases of acute flaccid …

Real-time forecasting of epidemic trajectories using computational dynamic ensembles

G Chowell, R Luo, K Sun, K Roosa, A Tariq, C Viboud - Epidemics, 2020 - Elsevier
Forecasting the trajectory of social dynamic processes, such as the spread of infectious
diseases, poses significant challenges that call for methods that account for data and model …

Elements of sequential monte carlo

CA Naesseth, F Lindsten… - Foundations and Trends …, 2019 - nowpublishers.com
A core problem in statistics and probabilistic machine learning is to compute probability
distributions and expectations. This is the fundamental problem of Bayesian statistics and …