4 papers
Improved Disease Outbreak Detection from Out-of-sequence measurements Using Markov-switching Fixed-lag Particle Filters
Conor Rosato, Joshua Murphy, Siân E. Jenkins +7
Particle filters (PFs) have become an essential tool for disease surveillance, as they can estimate hidden epidemic states in nonlinear and non-Gaussian models. In epidemic modelli…
Hess-MC2: Sequential Monte Carlo Squared using Hessian Information and Second Order Proposals
Joshua Murphy, Conor Rosato, Andrew Millard +3
When performing Bayesian inference using Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) methods, two considerations arise: the accuracy of the posterior approximation and computational efficiency. T…
Assessing the Impact of Vaccination on Rotavirus Transmission Dynamics Using Bayesian Inference
Conor Rosato, Joshua Murphy, Simon Maskell +1
The introduction of the rotavirus vaccine in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2013 led to a noticeable decline in laboratory reports in subsequent years. To assess the impact of vaccinat…
Efficient MCMC Sampling with Expensive-to-Compute and Irregular Likelihoods
Conor Rosato, Harvinder Lehal, Simon Maskell +2
Bayesian inference with Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) is challenging when the likelihood function is irregular and expensive to compute. We explore several sampling algorithms th…