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Overview
What you will study
There is a growing demand for mathematical modellers in public health to explain observed disease trends and predict the outcome of interventions, often by synthesising information from different data sources. At the same time, increasing computational power and methodological advances are providing exciting opportunities to fit ever more complex mechanistic models to data. In light of the speed of methodological advances and the broad nature of the field, the task of choosing from the available methods and packages, as well as putting them into practice, can be daunting.
With this Model Fitting and Inference for Infectious Disease Dynamics course offered by London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine we aim to bridge the gap between state-of-the-art statistical inference methods and training in infectious disease modelling. We will introduce key terminology from frequentist and Bayesian approaches as well as methods ranging from Markov-Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) to particle filters and Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC).
Programme Structure
The program focuses on:
- the conceptual underpinning of inference
- dynamic models
- apply this to model fitting using deterministic models in R
- stochastic models
- data in R
- the landscape of available packages (not limited to R)
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 4 days
Start dates & application deadlines
- Starting
- Apply before
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Language
English
Delivered
On Campus
Disciplines
Epidemiology View 13 other Short Courses in Epidemiology in United KingdomAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
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Other requirements
General requirements
- This course is aimed at students and researchers who are working with dynamic models of infectious disease (i.e., broadly based on the SIR model) and would like to learn about state-of-the art methods of matching these to data.
- The course is limited to 24 participants.
Tuition Fee
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International
1200 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 1200 GBP for the full programme during 4 days. -
National
1200 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 1200 GBP for the full programme during 4 days.
Living costs for London
1137 - 2157 GBP /month
Living costs
The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.
Funding
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