5 papers
Testing and Isolation Efficacy: Insights from a Simple Epidemic Model
Ali Gharouni, F. M. Abdelmalek, David J. D. Earn +2
Testing individuals for pathogens can affect the spread of epidemics. Understanding how individual-level processes of sampling and reporting test results can affect community- or p…
Sensitivity analysis of an integrated climate-economic model
Benjamin M. Bolker, Matheus R. Grasselli, Emma Holmes
We conduct a sensitivity analysis of a new type of integrated climate-economic model recently proposed in the literature, where the core economic component is based on the Goodwin-…
pcoxtime: Penalized Cox Proportional Hazard Model for Time-dependent Covariates
Steve Cygu, Jonathan Dushoff, Benjamin M. Bolker
The penalized Cox proportional hazard model is a popular analytical approach for survival data with a large number of covariates. Such problems are especially challenging when cova…
A note on observation processes in epidemic models
Sang Woo Park, Benjamin M. Bolker
Many disease models focus on characterizing the underlying transmission mechanism but make simple, possibly naive assumptions about how infections are reported. In this note, we us…
I can see clearly now: reinterpreting statistical significance
Jonathan Dushoff, Morgan P. Kain, Benjamin M. Bolker
Null hypothesis significance testing remains popular despite decades of concern about misuse and misinterpretation. We believe that much of the problem is due to language: signific…