A Bayesian ensemble approach for epidemiological projections

T Lindström, M Tildesley, C Webb - PLoS computational biology, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Mathematical models are powerful tools for epidemiology and can be used to compare
control actions. However, different models and model parameterizations may provide …

Accelerating Bayesian inference for stochastic epidemic models using incidence data

A Golightly, LE Wadkin, SA Whitaker… - Statistics and …, 2023 - Springer
We consider the case of performing Bayesian inference for stochastic epidemic
compartment models, using incomplete time course data consisting of incidence counts that …

A tutorial introduction to Bayesian inference for stochastic epidemic models using Markov chain Monte Carlo methods

PD O'Neill - Mathematical biosciences, 2002 - Elsevier
Recent Bayesian methods for the analysis of infectious disease outbreak data using
stochastic epidemic models are reviewed. These methods rely on Markov chain Monte Carlo …

Bayesian reconstruction of disease outbreaks by combining epidemiologic and genomic data

T Jombart, A Cori, X Didelot… - PLoS computational …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Recent years have seen progress in the development of statistically rigorous frameworks to
infer outbreak transmission trees (“who infected whom”) from epidemiological and genetic …

Simulation-based Bayesian inference for epidemic models

TJ McKinley, JV Ross, R Deardon, AR Cook - Computational Statistics & …, 2014 - Elsevier
A powerful and flexible method for fitting dynamic models to missing and censored data is to
use the Bayesian paradigm via data-augmented Markov chain Monte Carlo (DA-MCMC) …

Approximate Bayesian computation and simulation-based inference for complex stochastic epidemic models

TJ McKinley, I Vernon, I Andrianakis, N McCreesh… - 2018 - projecteuclid.org
Approximate Bayesian Computation and Simulation-Based Inference for Complex Stochastic
Epidemic Models Page 1 Statistical Science 2018, Vol. 33, No. 1, 4–18 https://doi.org/10.1214/17-STS618 …

A tutorial introduction to Bayesian inference for stochastic epidemic models using Approximate Bayesian Computation

T Kypraios, P Neal, D Prangle - Mathematical biosciences, 2017 - Elsevier
Likelihood-based inference for disease outbreak data can be very challenging due to the
inherent dependence of the data and the fact that they are usually incomplete. In this paper …

Comparison and assessment of epidemic models

GJ Gibson, G Streftaris, D Thong - Statistical Science, 2018 - JSTOR
Model criticism is a growing focus of research in stochastic epidemic modelling, following
the successful addressing of model fitting and parameter estimation via powerful …

Broadwick: a framework for computational epidemiology

A O'Hare, SJ Lycett, T Doherty, LC M. Salvador… - BMC …, 2016 - Springer
Background Modelling disease outbreaks often involves integrating the wealth of data that
are gathered during modern outbreaks into complex mathematical or computational models …

Assessing parameter identifiability in compartmental dynamic models using a computational approach: application to infectious disease transmission models

K Roosa, G Chowell - Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling, 2019 - Springer
Background Mathematical modeling is now frequently used in outbreak investigations to
understand underlying mechanisms of infectious disease dynamics, assess patterns in …