Adam Kucharski
@adamjkucharski
Epidemiologist/mathematician. Co-director of @LSHTM_CEPR and @TEDFellow. Author of The Rules of Contagion. Views own.
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http://blog.kucharski.io 02-01-2012 16:16:09
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A clever and unique study documents that much Covid transmission occurred via shopping in retail stores
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… PNASNews Thais Lærkholm Jensen CEBI - Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality
This survey in Significance summarising how medical statisticians feel (under)valued prompted me to reflect on my career so far. With reference to some quantitative results, here are three brief bits of advice for early-career #medical #statisticians ...
academic.oup.com/jrssig/article…
Super cool paper from Dr Sophie Meakin and Sebastian Funk (@[email protected]) on how assumed hospital catchments affect short term forecasts. bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…
New Christie Aschwanden podcast episode on scientific uncertainty and how I revised my views on the backfire effect open.spotify.com/episode/0uEaFU…
For more, see my article in PNAS: 'Why the backfire effect does not explain the durability of political misperceptions' pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…
Something that may be useful in this release is a vignette that walks through how to estimate the effective reproduction no. in the presence of latent and observed delays.
package.epinowcast.org/articles/singl…
Note there are some clear tooling gaps in this that it would be great to fill.
📢 New editorial out in BMJ Global Health: 'Stuck in ‘the field’: why applied epidemiology needs to go home’.👞🏠🧪
Reflections from my work participating in transnationanl outbreak investigations and reviewing other peoples' TL;DR below.👇
gh.bmj.com/content/9/4/e0…
And if you’re interested in analysing antibody data for Chagas to uncover transmission patterns over time, see this case study (and accompanying R package) by Zulma Cucunubá🦟 and co: epiverse-trace.github.io/serofoi/articl…