2 papers
stat.ME2026
Simultaneous estimation of the effective reproduction number and the time series of daily infections: Application to Covid-19
Hans R. Künsch, Fabio Sigrist
The time-varying effective reproduction number is an important parameter for communication and policy decisions during an epidemic. In this paper, we present new statistical method…
cs.LG2024
Gaussian Process Boosting
Fabio Sigrist
We introduce a novel way to combine boosting with Gaussian process and mixed effects models. This allows for relaxing, first, the zero or linearity assumption for the prior mean fu…