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Toward a comprehensive system for constructing compartmental epidemic models
Darren Flynn-Primrose, Steven C. Walker, Michael Li +3
Compartmental models are valuable tools for investigating infectious diseases. Researchers building such models typically begin with a simple structure where compartments correspon…
Evaluating undercounts in epidemics: response to Maruotti et al. 2022
Michael Li, Jonathan Dushoff, David J. D. Earn +1
Maruotti et al. 2022 used a mark-recapture approach to estimate bounds on the true number of monkeypox infections in various countries. These approaches are fundamentally flawed; i…
Testing and Isolation Efficacy: Insights from a Simple Epidemic Model
Ali Gharouni, F. M. Abdelmalek, David J. D. Earn +2
Testing individuals for pathogens can affect the spread of epidemics. Understanding how individual-level processes of sampling and reporting test results can affect community- or p…
pcoxtime: Penalized Cox Proportional Hazard Model for Time-dependent Covariates
Steve Cygu, Jonathan Dushoff, Benjamin M. Bolker
The penalized Cox proportional hazard model is a popular analytical approach for survival data with a large number of covariates. Such problems are especially challenging when cova…
I can see clearly now: reinterpreting statistical significance
Jonathan Dushoff, Morgan P. Kain, Benjamin M. Bolker
Null hypothesis significance testing remains popular despite decades of concern about misuse and misinterpretation. We believe that much of the problem is due to language: signific…
Patterns of Influenza Vaccination Coverage in the United States from 2009 to 2015
Alice P. Y. Chiu, Duo Yu, Jonathan Dushoff +1
Background: Globally, influenza is a major cause of morbidity, hospitalization and mortality. Influenza vaccination has shown substantial protective effectiveness in the United Sta…