The basic reproduction number (R0) of measles: a systematic review

FM Guerra, S Bolotin, G Lim, J Heffernan… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2017 - thelancet.com
The basic reproduction number, R nought (R 0), is defined as the average number of
secondary cases of an infectious disease arising from a typical case in a totally susceptible …

Riemann manifold langevin and hamiltonian monte carlo methods

M Girolami, B Calderhead - … the Royal Statistical Society Series B …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
The paper proposes Metropolis adjusted Langevin and Hamiltonian Monte Carlo sampling
methods defined on the Riemann manifold to resolve the shortcomings of existing Monte …

Substantial undocumented infection facilitates the rapid dissemination of novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2)

R Li, S Pei, B Chen, Y Song, T Zhang, W Yang… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Estimation of the prevalence and contagiousness of undocumented novel coronavirus
[severe acute respiratory syndrome–coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)] infections is critical for …

Impact of temperature on the dynamics of the COVID-19 outbreak in China

P Shi, Y Dong, H Yan, C Zhao, X Li, W Liu, M He… - Science of the total …, 2020 - Elsevier
A COVID-19 outbreak emerged in Wuhan, China at the end of 2019 and developed into a
global pandemic during March 2020. The effects of temperature on the dynamics of the …

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 …

Particle markov chain monte carlo methods

C Andrieu, A Doucet… - Journal of the Royal …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Summary Markov chain Monte Carlo and sequential Monte Carlo methods have emerged as
the two main tools to sample from high dimensional probability distributions. Although …

Prevention and control of Zika as a mosquito-borne and sexually transmitted disease: a mathematical modeling analysis

D Gao, Y Lou, D He, TC Porco, Y Kuang, G Chowell… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
The ongoing Zika virus (ZIKV) epidemic in the Americas poses a major global public health
emergency. While ZIKV is transmitted from human to human by bites of Aedes mosquitoes …

The impact of temperature and absolute humidity on the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak-evidence from China

P Shi, Y Dong, H Yan, X Li, C Zhao, W Liu, M He… - MedRxiv, 2020 - medrxiv.org
ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To investigate the impact of temperature and absolute humidity on
the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak. DESIGN Ecological study. SETTING 31 …

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

AA King, D Nguyen, EL Ionides - Journal of Statistical Software, 2016 - jstatsoft.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 …

Forecasting seasonal outbreaks of influenza

J Shaman, A Karspeck - Proceedings of the National …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Influenza recurs seasonally in temperate regions of the world; however, our ability to predict
the timing, duration, and magnitude of local seasonal outbreaks of influenza remains limited …