Blog
Notes and updates on statistics, infectious disease modeling, and other miscellaneous topics.
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julia ABM SIR
In this post I just wanted to play with julia and R together on the topic of agent based models. Agent based models have some particular advantages in that they...
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Sensitivity and Specificity
One important concept that is discuss often is the role of sensitivity and specificity in testing. Here we are looking at the ability of a given diagnostic test to correctly...
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ggdist and Epidemic Curves
This little post is based on a recent paper by Juul et al. ( 2020 ). For infectious disease modelling we are often running many scenarios through the models. Why?...
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Flatten the Curve
I just wanted to write up a quick exponential growth model for my county. I have been saddened that the local department of public health has been underestimating the power...
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Airflow on Windows Linux Subsystem
Like it or not, there are a lot of Windows shops out there. However, many super useful tools are Linux native and don’t really bridge into the Windows world (for...
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2020 Plans
I’m not one for New Year’s resolutions, but this post is more about those things that I wish to accomplish in this coming year. Someone once told me that you...
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How About Impeachment?
So I suppose this is a logical follow-up to the previous post. Now, instead of approval, we can look at impeachment. Our friends at fivethirtyeight have not publically shared the...
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Approval Rating Now?
This one is a quick one and based on some work that I have already done. Given the ongoing controversy about President Trump potentially using publically held funds to strong...
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Integrating Over Your Loss Function
This is a line that I heard and saw from a talk that James Savage at an NYC R Conference in which he discussed the importance of integrating over your...
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Remembering Apollo
With all of the media coverage, I have grown very nostalgic regarding the Apollo space program. It always amazes me to read the stories about the science and engineering that...