3 papers
q-bio.PE2025
Sensitivity analysis of epidemic forecasting and spreading on networks with probability generating functions
Mariah C. Boudreau, William H. W. Thompson, Christopher M. Danforth +2
Epidemic forecasting tools embrace the stochasticity and heterogeneity of disease spread to predict the growth and size of outbreaks. Conceptually, stochasticity and heterogeneity…
q-bio.PE2024
Within-host infection dynamics with master equations and the method of moments: A case study of human papillomavirus in the epithelium
Mariah C. Boudreau, Jamie A. Cohen, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne
Master equations provide researchers with the ability to track the distribution over possible states of a system. From these equations, we can summarize the temporal dynamics throu…
q-bio.PE2023
Temporal and probabilistic comparisons of epidemic interventions
Mariah C. Boudreau, Andrea J. Allen, Nicholas J. Roberts +2
Forecasting disease spread is a critical tool to help public health officials design and plan public health interventions. However, the expected future state of an epidemic is not…