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A Space-time Model for Inferring A Susceptibility Map for An Infectious Disease
Xiaoxiao Li, Matthew Ferrari, Michael J. Tildesley +1
Motivated by foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreak data from Turkey, we develop a model to estimate disease risk based on a space-time record of outbreaks. The spread of infectious…
stat.ME2021
Measuring Sample Quality in Algorithms for Intractable Normalizing Function Problems
Bokgyeong Kang, John Hughes, Murali Haran
Models with intractable normalizing functions have numerous applications. Because the normalizing constants are functions of the parameters of interest, standard Markov chain Monte…