3 papers
stat.AP2026
DESA: An R Package for Detecting Epidemics using a School-Absenteeism Surveillance Framework
Vinay Joshy, Zeny Feng, Lorna Deeth +2
Absenteeism of elementary school children has been shown to be effective in the early detection of an incoming influenza epidemic within a given population. This paper introduces D…
stat.ME2025
Composite method for fast computation of individual level spatial epidemic models
Yirao Zhang, Rob Deardon, Lorna Deeth
Individual-level models, also known as ILMs, are commonly used in epidemics modelling, as they can flexibly incorporate individual-level covariates that influence susceptibility an…
stat.ME2025
Dominating Hyperplane Regularization for Variable Selection in Multivariate Count Regression
Alysha Cooper, Zeny Feng, Ayesha Ali +2
Identifying relevant factors that influence the multinomial counts in compositional data is difficult in high dimensional settings due to the complex associations and overdispersio…