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COVID-19 modelling

April 6, 2020 By editor

Imperial College have published their COVID-19 modelling code on GitHub. Their modelling has apparently been used in forming UK policy.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: COVID-19, python, R, Stan

Simulations of disease spread

March 15, 2020 By editor

The Washington Post has some simple visual simulations that show how strategies such as quarantining and social distancing can impact the spread of an infectious disease.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: COVID-19

COVID-19 dashboard

March 11, 2020 By editor

Effective COVID-19 dashboard showing UK cases—from Public Health England.

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COVID-19 epidemiology with R

March 6, 2020 By editor

Interesting, and timely, article on using R to analyse COVID-19 incidence data collated by John Hopkins University.

It makes use of two epidemiology packages.

  • earlyR for estimation of infectiousness, as measured by the reproduction number (R), in the early stages of an outbreak.

  • EpiEstim for estimating the time varying instantaneous reproduction number during epidemics

These packages, and many more, are part of the R Epidemics Consortium (RECON). They

[…] gather experts in data science, modelling methodology, public health, and software development to create the next generation of analytics tools for informing the response to disease outbreaks, health emergencies and humanitarian crises, using the R software and other free, open-source resources.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: COVID-19, epidemiology, R

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