3 papers
stat.ME2025
Bayesian inference of antibody evolutionary dynamics using multitype branching processes
Athanasios G. Bakis, Ashni A. Vora, Tatsuya Araki +8
When our immune system encounters foreign antigens (i.e., from pathogens), the B cells that produce our antibodies undergo a cyclic process of proliferation, mutation, and selectio…
stat.ME2024
Accounting for reporting delays in real-time phylodynamic analyses with preferential sampling
Catalina M. Medina, Julia A. Palacios, Volodymyr M. Minin
The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated that fast and accurate analysis of continually collected infectious disease surveillance data is crucial for situational awareness and policy mak…
stat.ME2021
How trustworthy is your tree? Bayesian phylogenetic effective sample size through the lens of Monte Carlo error
Andrew F. Magee, Michael D. Karcher, Frederick A. Matsen +1
Bayesian inference is a popular and widely-used approach to infer phylogenies (evolutionary trees). However, despite decades of widespread application, it remains difficult to judg…