2 papers
stat.ME2025
Estimating the duration of RT-PCR positivity for SARS-CoV-2 from doubly interval censored data with undetected infections
Joshua Blake, Paul Birrell, A. Sarah Walker +5
Monitoring the incidence of new infections during a pandemic is critical for an effective public health response. General population prevalence surveys for SARS-CoV-2 can provide h…
stat.ML2024
Sample-efficient neural likelihood-free Bayesian inference of implicit HMMs
Sanmitra Ghosh, Paul J. Birrell, Daniela De Angelis
Likelihood-free inference methods based on neural conditional density estimation were shown to drastically reduce the simulation burden in comparison to classical methods such as A…