3 papers
stat.AP2026
When to repeat a biomarker test? Decomposing sources of variation from conditionally repeated measurements
Supun Manathunga, Mart P. Janssen, Yu Luo +2
Repeating an imperfect biomarker test based on an initial result can introduce bias and influence misclassification risk. For example, in some blood donation settings, blood donors…
stat.AP2025
PoPStat-COVID19: Leveraging Population Pyramids to Quantify Demographic Vulnerability to COVID-19
Buddhi Wijenayake, Athulya Ratnayake, Lelumi Edirisinghe +8
Understanding how population age structure shapes COVID-19 burden is crucial for pandemic preparedness, yet common summary measures such as median age ignore key distributional fea…
stat.AP2025
Devising PoPStat: A Metric Bridging Population Pyramids with Global Disease Mortality
Tharaka Fonseka, Buddhi Wijenayake, Athulya Ratnayake +7
Understanding the relationship between population dynamics and disease-specific mortality is central to evidence-based health policy. This study introduces two novel metrics, PoPDi…