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Title: | Parameter inference in small world network disease models with approximate Bayesian Computational methods | Authors: | Walker, DM Allingham, D Lee, HWJ Small, M |
Keywords: | Approximate Bayesian Computation Epidemiological models Small world networks Stochastic simulation & inference |
Issue Date: | 2010 | Publisher: | North-Holland | Source: | Physica A. Statistical mechanics and its applications, 2010, v. 389, no. 3, p. 540-548 How to cite? | Journal: | Physica A. Statistical mechanics and its applications | Abstract: | Small world network models have been effective in capturing the variable behaviour of reported case data of the SARS coronavirus outbreak in Hong Kong during 2003. Simulations of these models have previously been realized using informed "guesses" of the proposed model parameters and tested for consistency with the reported data by surrogate analysis. In this paper we attempt to provide statistically rigorous parameter distributions using Approximate Bayesian Computation sampling methods. We find that such sampling schemes are a useful framework for fitting parameters of stochastic small world network models where simulation of the system is straightforward but expressing a likelihood is cumbersome. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10397/25478 | ISSN: | 0378-4371 | EISSN: | 1873-2119 | DOI: | 10.1016/j.physa.2009.09.053 |
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