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most citedInference in Stochastic Epidemic Models via Multinomial Approximations

4 citations · 12 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

stat.ME2025

Scalable calibration of individual-based epidemic models through categorical approximations

Lorenzo Rimella, Nick Whiteley, Chris Jewell +2

Traditional compartmental models capture population-level dynamics but fail to characterize individual-level risk. The computational cost of exact likelihood evaluation for partial…

stat.AP2024

Disclosure risk assessment with Bayesian non-parametric hierarchical modelling

Marco Battiston, Lorenzo Rimella

Micro and survey datasets often contain private information about individuals, like their health status, income or political preferences. Previous studies have shown that, even aft…

stat.ME2023

Simulation Based Composite Likelihood

Lorenzo Rimella, Chris Jewell, Paul Fearnhead

Inference for high-dimensional hidden Markov models is challenging due to the exponential-in-dimension computational cost of calculating the likelihood. To address this issue, we i…

stat.AP2023★ 4 cited

A State-Space Perspective on Modelling and Inference for Online Skill Rating

Samuel Duffield, Samuel Power, Lorenzo Rimella

We summarise popular methods used for skill rating in competitive sports, along with their inferential paradigms and introduce new approaches based on sequential Monte Carlo and di…

stat.ME2022

Approximating optimal SMC proposal distributions in individual-based epidemic models

Lorenzo Rimella, Christopher Jewell, Paul Fearnhead

Many epidemic models are naturally defined as individual-based models: where we track the state of each individual within a susceptible population. Inference for individual-based m…

stat.ME2022★ 1 cited

Consistent and fast inference in compartmental models of epidemics using Poisson Approximate Likelihoods

Michael Whitehouse, Nick Whiteley, Lorenzo Rimella

Addressing the challenge of scaling-up epidemiological inference to complex and heterogeneous models, we introduce Poisson Approximate Likelihood (PAL) methods. In contrast to the…

stat.ME2020★ 4 cited

Inference in Stochastic Epidemic Models via Multinomial Approximations

Nick Whiteley, Lorenzo Rimella

We introduce a new method for inference in stochastic epidemic models which uses recursive multinomial approximations to integrate over unobserved variables and thus circumvent lik…

stat.ML2020★ 2 cited

Hidden Markov Neural Networks

Lorenzo Rimella, Nick Whiteley

We define an evolving in-time Bayesian neural network called a Hidden Markov Neural Network, which addresses the crucial challenge in time-series forecasting and continual learning…

stat.ML2019★ 1 cited

Exploiting locality in high-dimensional factorial hidden Markov models

Lorenzo Rimella, Nick Whiteley

We propose algorithms for approximate filtering and smoothing in high-dimensional Factorial hidden Markov models. The approximation involves discarding, in a principled way, likeli…