10th Annual Summer Institute in Statistics and Modeling in Infectious Diseases (SISMID)

Module 10: MCMC II for Infectious Diseases

Wed, July 18 to Fri, July 20

Module dates/times: Wednesday, July 18, 1:30-5 p.m.; Thursday, July 19, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m., and Friday, July 20, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.

This course is full. If you wish to be placed on the waiting list, email uwbiost@uw.edu.

Prerequisites: The course assumes all the material in Module 4: MCMC I for Infectious Diseases or the equivalent knowledge of MCMC. Students are expected to have a working knowledge of the R computing environment. Programming will be in R. Students new to R should complete an extensive tutorial before the module. This module assumes knowledge of the material in Module 1: Probability and Statistical Inference, though not necessarily from taking that module.

Recommended, but not required: Knowledge of the material from Module 2: Mathematical Models of Infectious Diseases or Module 5: Stochastic Epidemic Models with Inference, or the equivalentwould be helpful, but not required.

This module continues on from Module 4 by looking in detail at practical implementation issues for MCMC methods when applied to data from infectious disease outbreaks. The main focus will be towards inference for the SIR (susceptible-infected-removed) model. Topics include parameterization, methods for improving convergence, assessing MCMC output, and data augmentation methods. Programming will be carried out in R.

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