How reliable are test numbers for revealing the COVID-19 ground truth and applying interventions?

A Gopalan, H Tyagi - Journal of the Indian Institute of Science, 2020 - Springer
The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 is often used as a proxy for the actual number
of ground truth COVID-19-infected cases in both public discourse and policy making …

Adaptive sequential surveillance with network and temporal dependence

I Malenica, JR Coyle, MJ van der Laan… - Biometrics, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Strategic test allocation is important for control of both emerging and existing pandemics (eg,
COVID-19, HIV). It supports effective epidemic control by (1) reducing transmission via …

Active Testing for an Emerging Epidemic

AJ Mann, I Bistritz, N Bambos - 2022 IEEE International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Identifying disease carriers is a key barrier to effectively control an epidemic outbreak,
especially when many carriers are asymptomatic, have minor symptoms, or have a delayed …

[图书][B] Robust Estimation Methods and Causal Inference for Time-Series

I Malenica - 2022 - search.proquest.com
Intensive longitudinal data, defined as time-varying data collected frequently over time,
holds immense promise to advance many healthcare and public health concerns. High …