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q-bio.PE2025
Applications of the Vendi score in genomic epidemiology
Bjarke Frost Nielsen, Amey P. Pasarkar, Qiqi Yang +2
The Vendi score (VS), a diversity metric recently conceived in the context of machine learning, with applications in a wide range of fields, has a few distinct advantages over the…
q-bio.PE2025
Complex multiannual cycles of Mycoplasma pneumoniae: persistence and the role of stochasticity
Bjarke Frost Nielsen, Sang Woo Park, Emily Howerton +3
The epidemiological dynamics of Mycoplasma pneumoniae is characterized by poorly understood complex multiannual cycles. The origins of these cycles have long been debated, and mult…
q-bio.PE2012
Characterizing the dynamics of rubella relative to measles: the role of stochasticity
Ganna Rozhnova, C. Jessica E. Metcalf, Bryan T. Grenfell
Rubella is a completely immunizing and mild infection in children. Understanding its behavior is of considerable public health importance because of Congenital Rubella Syndrome, wh…