https://timchurches.github.io/blog/ A blog dedicated to noodlings about health data science. Distill Fri, 20 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Tim Churches https://timchurches.github.io/blog/posts/2020-03-20-dont-speculate-simulate Just a pointer to a further post on COVID-19 simulation that I wrote for the R-Views blog. R COVID-19 https://timchurches.github.io/blog/posts/2020-03-20-dont-speculate-simulate Fri, 20 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Tim Churches https://timchurches.github.io/blog/posts/2020-03-18-modelling-the-effects-of-public-health-interventions-on-covid-19-transmission-part-2 This is the second of several posts which examine the effect of various public health interventions on the local epidemic spread of COVID-19 infection using stochastic individual compartmental models (ICMs) implemented by the `EpiModel` library for R. In this post we extend the ICM SIR model provided by `EpiModel` in various ways to improve its verisimilitude and utility for COVID-19 simulation. R COVID-19 https://timchurches.github.io/blog/posts/2020-03-18-modelling-the-effects-of-public-health-interventions-on-covid-19-transmission-part-2 Wed, 18 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Tim Churches https://timchurches.github.io/blog/posts/2020-03-10-modelling-the-effects-of-public-health-interventions-on-covid-19-transmission-part-1 This is the first post of several that examines the effect of various public health interventions on the local epidemic spread of COVID-19 infection using stochastic compartmental models implemented by the `EpiModel` library for R. R COVID-19 https://timchurches.github.io/blog/posts/2020-03-10-modelling-the-effects-of-public-health-interventions-on-covid-19-transmission-part-1 Tue, 10 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Tim Churches https://timchurches.github.io/blog/posts/2020-03-06-covid-19-call-to-arms A new blog post has been published which is a call-to-arms for epidemiologists and data scientists in the fight against COVID-19. R COVID-19 https://timchurches.github.io/blog/posts/2020-03-06-covid-19-call-to-arms Fri, 06 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Tim Churches https://timchurches.github.io/blog/posts/2020-03-01-analysing-covid-19-2019-ncov-outbreak-data-with-r-part-2 A further exploration of COVID-19 incidence data using R tools and packages. R COVID-19 https://timchurches.github.io/blog/posts/2020-03-01-analysing-covid-19-2019-ncov-outbreak-data-with-r-part-2 Sun, 01 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Tim Churches https://timchurches.github.io/blog/posts/2020-02-18-analysing-covid-19-2019-ncov-outbreak-data-with-r-part-1 An exploration of COVID-19 incidence data using R tools and packages. R COVID-19 https://timchurches.github.io/blog/posts/2020-02-18-analysing-covid-19-2019-ncov-outbreak-data-with-r-part-1 Tue, 18 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000