4 papers
Mechanics of Pandemics
Seba Contreras, Philipp Dönges, Laura Müller +24
COVID-19 and previous pandemics have shown how diseases can disrupt, threaten, and transform daily life. Since pathogens and societies are continuously evolving, every pandemic is…
Tracking dynamics of superspreading through contacts, exposures, and transmissions in edge-based network epidemics
Ari S. Freedman, Bjarke F. Nielsen, Maximillian M. Nguyen +3
Infectious disease superspreading caused by heterogeneity in contact behavior has been observed to be an important determinant of epidemic dynamics and size in both empirical and t…
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…
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…