Design and analysis of infectious disease studies. Abstracts from the workshop held February 19–25, 2023. (English) Zbl 1525.00015
Summary: This was the sixth workshop on mathematical and statistical methods for the transmission of infectious diseases. Building on epidemiologic models which were the subject of earlier workshops, this workshop concentrated on disentangling who infected whom by analysing high-resolution genomic data of pathogens which are routinely collected during outbreaks. Following the trail of the small mutations which continuously occur in different places of pathogens’ genomes, mathematical tools and computational algorithms were used to reconstruct transmission trees and contact networks. In the past three years these methods were developed and used particularly in the context of the SARS-Cov-2 (Covid-19) pandemic.
MSC:
| 00B05 | Collections of abstracts of lectures |
| 00B25 | Proceedings of conferences of miscellaneous specific interest |
| 92-06 | Proceedings, conferences, collections, etc. pertaining to biology |
| 62-06 | Proceedings, conferences, collections, etc. pertaining to statistics |
| 05C05 | Trees |
| 05C12 | Distance in graphs |
| 05C82 | Small world graphs, complex networks (graph-theoretic aspects) |
| 37E25 | Dynamical systems involving maps of trees and graphs |
| 37N25 | Dynamical systems in biology |
| 62F15 | Bayesian inference |
| 62H30 | Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) |
| 62M05 | Markov processes: estimation; hidden Markov models |
| 62M09 | Non-Markovian processes: estimation |
| 62N01 | Censored data models |
| 62N02 | Estimation in survival analysis and censored data |
| 62P10 | Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis |
| 92-04 | Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to biology |
| 92-08 | Computational methods for problems pertaining to biology |
| 92C60 | Medical epidemiology |
| 92D20 | Protein sequences, DNA sequences |
| 92D30 | Epidemiology |
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