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q-bio.PE2015
Imperfect Testing of Individuals for Infectious Diseases: Mathematical Model and Analysis
Daniel A. M. Villela
Testing symptomatic individuals for a disease can deliver treatment resources, if tests' results turn positive, which speeds up their treatment and might also decrease individuals'…
q-bio.PE2015
An analysis of the vectorial capacity using moment-generating functions
Daniel A. M. Villela
This paper describes a technique for analyzing the stochastic structure of the vectorial capacity using moment--generating functions. In such formulation, for an infectious disease…
stat.ME2015★ 15 cited
Combining probability distributions: Extending the logarithmic pooling approach
Luiz Max de Carvalho, Daniel A. M. Villela, Flavio Codeco Coelho +1
Combining distributions is an important issue in decision theory and Bayesian inference. Logarithmic pooling is a popular method to aggregate expert opinions by using a set of weig…