- Published
- 16 June 2022
- Journal article
Complex model calibration through emulation, a worked example for a stochastic epidemic model
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- Source
- Epidemics
Abstract
Uncertainty quantification is a formal paradigm of statistical estimation that aims to account for all uncertainties inherent in the modelling process of real-world complex systems. The methods are directly applicable to stochastic models in epidemiology, however they have thus far not been widely used in this context. In this paper, we provide a tutorial on uncertainty quantification of stochastic epidemic models, aiming to facilitate the use of the uncertainty quantification paradigm for practitioners with other complex stochastic simulators of applied systems. We provide a formal workflow including the important decisions and considerations that need to be taken, and illustrate the methods over a simple stochastic epidemic model of UK SARS-CoV-2 transmission and patient outcome. We also present new approaches to visualisation of outputs from sensitivity analyses and uncertainty quantification more generally in high input and/or output dimensions.
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Dunne, M., Mohammadi, H., Challenor, P., Borgo, R., Porphyre, T., Vernon, I., Firat, E., Turkay, C., Torsney-Weir, T., Goldstein, M., Reeve, R., Fang, H. & Swallow, B. 2022, 'Complex model calibration through emulation, a worked example for a stochastic epidemic model', Epidemics, 39, article no: 100574. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epidem.2022.100574
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