Responsible modelling: Unit testing for infectious disease epidemiology

Infectious disease epidemiology is increasingly reliant on large-scale computation and inference. Models have guided health policy for epidemics including COVID-19 and Ebola and endemic diseases including malaria and tuberculosis. Yet a coding bug may bias results, yielding incorrect conclusions and...

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Main Authors: Tim C.D. Lucas, Timothy M Pollington, Emma L Davis, T Déirdre Hollingsworth
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-12-01
Series:Epidemics
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755436520300451