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most citedInferring age-specific differences in susceptibility to and infectiousness upon SARS-CoV-2 infection based on Belgian social contact data

53 citations · 97 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

stat.AP2023★ 1 cited

Rejoinder to Discussion of "A Tale of Two Datasets: Representativeness and Generalisability of Inference for Samples of Networks''

Pavel N. Krivitsky, Pietro Coletti, Niel Hens

This rejoinder responds to discussions by of Caimo, Niezink, and Schweinberger and Fritz of ''A Tale of Two Datasets: Representativeness and Generalisability of Inference for Sampl…

cs.LG2023

Evaluating COVID-19 vaccine allocation policies using Bayesian -top exploration

Alexandra Cimpean, Timothy Verstraeten, Lander Willem +3

Individual-based epidemiological models support the study of fine-grained preventive measures, such as tailored vaccine allocation policies, in silico. As individual-based models a…

cs.LG2022

Exploring the Pareto front of multi-objective COVID-19 mitigation policies using reinforcement learning

Mathieu Reymond, Conor F. Hayes, Lander Willem +8

Infectious disease outbreaks can have a disruptive impact on public health and societal processes. As decision making in the context of epidemic mitigation is hard, reinforcement l…

stat.ME2022★ 16 cited

A Tale of Two Datasets: Representativeness and Generalisability of Inference for Samples of Networks

Pavel N. Krivitsky, Pietro Coletti, Niel Hens

The last two decades have seen considerable progress in foundational aspects of statistical network analysis, but the path from theory to application is not straightforward. Two la…

q-bio.PE2021★ 53 cited

Inferring age-specific differences in susceptibility to and infectiousness upon SARS-CoV-2 infection based on Belgian social contact data

Nicolas Franco, Pietro Coletti, Lander Willem +6

Several important aspects related to SARS-CoV-2 transmission are not well known due to a lack of appropriate data. However, mathematical and computational tools can be used to extr…

stat.ME2021★ 15 cited

Laplacian-P-splines for Bayesian inference in the mixture cure model

Oswaldo Gressani, Christel Faes, Niel Hens

The mixture cure model for analyzing survival data is characterized by the assumption that the population under study is divided into a group of subjects who will experience the ev…