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The incubation period of 2019-nCoV from publicly reported confirmed cases: estimation and application

A novel human coronavirus (2019-nCoV) was identified in China in December, 2019. There is limited support for many of its key epidemiologic features, including the incubation period, which has important implications for surveillance and control …

Prospective forecasts of annual dengue hemorrhagic fever incidence in Thailand, 2010–2014

Dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF), a severe manifestation of dengue viral infection that can cause severe bleeding, organ impairment, and even death, affects between 15,000 and 105,000 people each year in Thailand. While all Thai provinces experience at …

Infectious disease prediction with kernel conditional density estimation

Creating statistical models that generate accurate predictions of infectious disease incidence is a challenging problem whose solution could benefit public health decision makers. We develop a new approach to this problem using kernel conditional …

Challenges in Real-Time Prediction of Infectious Disease: A Case Study of Dengue in Thailand

Epidemics of communicable diseases place a huge burden on public health infrastructures across the world. Producing accurate and actionable forecasts of infectious disease incidence at short and long time scales will improve public health response to …