3 papers
q-bio.PE2019
Hospitalization in the transmission of dengue dynamics: The impact on public health policies
Fabio Sanchez, Jorge Arroyo-Esquivel, Paola Vasquez
Dengue virus has caused major problems for public health officials for decades in tropical and subtropical countries. We construct a compartmental model that includes the risk of h…
stat.ML2019
Climate-driven statistical models as effective predictors of local dengue incidence in Costa Rica: A Generalized Additive Model and Random Forest approach
Paola Vásquez, Antonio Loría, Fabio Sanchez +1
Climate has been an important factor in shaping the distribution and incidence of dengue cases in tropical and subtropical countries. In Costa Rica, a tropical country with distinc…
q-bio.PE2018
Parameter estimates of the 2016-2017 Zika outbreak in Costa Rica: An Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) Approach
Fabio Sanchez, Luis Barboza, Paola Vasquez
In Costa Rica, the first known cases of Zika were reported in 2016. We looked at the 2016-2017 Zika outbreak and explored the transmission dynamics using weekly reported data. A no…