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Identity by Descent: Tracing Malaria's Family Tree

The Genetic Fingerprint of Transmission Every time a malaria parasite reproduces, it creates an opportunity to trace ancestry. When two …
Nov 13, 2024 10 min read Research, Malaria, Molecular Surveillance

The Complexities of Complexity of Infection: Understanding Multiple Malaria Strains

The Hidden Complexity Inside When a mosquito infected with malaria bites a person, we typically think of it as transmitting …
Nov 13, 2024 9 min read Research, Malaria, Molecular Surveillance

The Network Effect: Why Some Disease Outbreaks Are Predictable and Others Are Coin Flips

After analyzing 1.35 million epidemic simulations, we discovered that network heterogeneity—the presence of ‘hubs’ with …
Nov 13, 2024 5 min read Research, Epidemiology, Networks

Using Statistical Modeling to Win a NFL Knockout Pool

Introduction Admittedly, I am a terrible sports fan. However, I do enjoy competition and the opportunity to participate in a little …
Nov 13, 2024 3 min read Statistics, Sports, Fun

COVID-19 Statistical Modeling with Serologic Data

The purpose of the COVIDCurve project and R-software package was to provide a framework to fit age-specific infection fatality ratios …
May 20, 2022 2 min read R-packages

Simulating Deterministic SIR Models in a Closed and Open Population Playground

Below, you will find code for creating a shiny flex-dashboard for simple SIR open and closed population models. --- title: …
Apr 27, 2020 6 min read R

Stochastic Simulations for Flattening the Curve Playground

Below, you will find code for creating a shiny flex-dashboard for performing simple stochastic simulations with one time-interruption …
Apr 27, 2020 3 min read R