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most citedRandom walk models in the life sciences: including births, deaths and local interactions

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q-bio.PE2025

Joint economic and epidemiological modelling of alternative pandemic response strategies

M J Plank, M Sushames, T Fisher-Taylor +4

In an emerging pandemic, policymakers need to make important decisions with limited information, for example choosing between a mitigation, suppression or elimination strategy. The…

stat.AP2025

Estimating excess mortality during the Covid-19 pandemic in Aotearoa New Zealand: Addendum

Michael J. Plank, Pubudu Senanayake, Richard Lyon

In our previous article, we estimated excess mortality during in Aotearoa New Zealand for 2020 to 2023. Since our work was published, updated population estimates have been release…

physics.soc-ph2025★ 3 cited

Ethical considerations in infectious disease modelling for public health policy: the case of school closures

Diego S. Silva, Sara Y. Del Valle, Michael J. Plank

Mathematical models of infectious diseases are frequently used as a tool to support public health policy and decisions around implementation of interventions such as school closure…

q-bio.PE2025

Continuum models describing probabilistic motion of tagged agents in exclusion processes

Michael J. Plank, Matthew J. Simpson

Lattice-based random walk models are widely used to study populations of migrating cells with motility bias and proliferation. Crowding is typically represented by volume exclusion…

stat.ME2025★ 1 cited

A nonparametric approach to practical identifiability of nonlinear mixed effects models

Tyler Cassidy, Stuart T. Johnston, Michael Plank +4

Mathematical modelling is a widely used approach to understand and interpret clinical trial data. This modelling typically involves fitting mechanistic mathematical models to data…