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most citedA Case Study in Model Failure? COVID-19 Daily Deaths and ICU Bed Utilisation Predictions in New York State

84 citations · 89 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

q-bio.PE202084 cited

A Case Study in Model Failure? COVID-19 Daily Deaths and ICU Bed Utilisation Predictions in New York State

Vincent Chin, Noelle I. Samia, Roman Marchant +4

Forecasting models have been influential in shaping decision-making in the COVID-19 pandemic. However, there is concern that their predictions may have been misleading. Here, we di…

stat.OT20201 cited

Learning as We Go: An Examination of the Statistical Accuracy of COVID19 Daily Death Count Predictions

Roman Marchant, Noelle I. Samia, Ori Rosen +2

This paper provides a formal evaluation of the predictive performance of a model (and its various updates) developed by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) for p…

q-fin.ST2019

Bayesian Nonparametric Adaptive Spectral Density Estimation for Financial Time Series

Nick James, Roman Marchant, Richard Gerlach +1

Discrimination between non-stationarity and long-range dependency is a difficult and long-standing issue in modelling financial time series. This paper uses an adaptive spectral te…

cs.RO20172 cited

Sequential Bayesian Optimisation as a POMDP for Environment Monitoring with UAVs

Philippe Morere, Roman Marchant, Fabio Ramos

Bayesian Optimisation has gained much popularity lately, as a global optimisation technique for functions that are expensive to evaluate or unknown a priori. While classical BO foc…

cs.RO20172 cited

Occupancy Map Building through Bayesian Exploration

Gilad Francis, Lionel Ott, Roman Marchant +1

We propose a novel holistic approach for safe autonomous exploration and map building based on constrained Bayesian optimisation. This method finds optimal continuous paths instead…