no code implementations • 8 Mar 2022 • Abhishek Varghese, Edgar Santos-Fernandez, Francesco Denti, Antonietta Mira, Kerrie Mengersen
This paper aims to develop a global perspective of the complexity of the relationship between the standardised per-capita growth rate of Covid-19 cases, deaths, and the OxCGRT Covid-19 Stringency Index, a measure describing a country's stringency of lockdown policies.
1 code implementation • 28 Jan 2022 • Carlo Albert, Simone Ulzega, Firat Ozdemir, Fernando Perez-Cruz, Antonietta Mira
For stochastic models with intractable likelihood functions, approximate Bayesian computation offers a way of approximating the true posterior through repeated comparisons of observations with simulated model outputs in terms of a small set of summary statistics.
no code implementations • 11 Mar 2021 • Stephan Allenspach, Pascal Puphal, Joosep Link, Ivo Heinmaa, Ekaterina Pomjakushina, Cornelius Krellner, Jakob Lass, Gregory S. Tucker, Christof Niedermayer, Shusaku Imajo, Yoshimitsu Kohama, Koichi Kindo, Steffen Krämer, Mladen Horvatić, Marcelo Jaime, Alexander Madsen, Antonietta Mira, Nicolas Laflorencie, Frédéric Mila, Bruce Normand, Christian Rüegg, Raivo Stern, Franziska Weickert
Classical and quantum phase transitions (QPTs), with their accompanying concepts of criticality and universality, are a cornerstone of statistical thermodynamics.
Strongly Correlated Electrons
no code implementations • 13 Oct 2020 • Ritabrata Dutta, Karim Zouaoui-Boudjeltia, Christos Kotsalos, Alexandre Rousseau, Daniel Ribeiro de Sousa, Jean-Marc Desmet, Alain Van Meerhaeghe, Antonietta Mira, Bastien Chopard
Cardio/cerebrovascular diseases (CVD) have become one of the major health issue in our societies.
1 code implementation • 17 Aug 2020 • Francesco Denti, Federico Camerlenghi, Michele Guindani, Antonietta Mira
The use of high-dimensional data for targeted therapeutic interventions requires new ways to characterize the heterogeneity observed across subgroups of a specific population.
Methodology Applications
1 code implementation • 27 Feb 2019 • Michele Allegra, Elena Facco, Francesco Denti, Alessandro Laio, Antonietta Mira
Here we develop a robust approach to discriminate regions with different local IDs and segment the points accordingly.
1 code implementation • 13 Nov 2018 • Leah F. South, Antonietta Mira, Christopher Drovandi
Zero-variance control variates (ZV-CV) are a post-processing method to reduce the variance of Monte Carlo estimators of expectations using the derivatives of the log target.
Computation Methodology
2 code implementations • 28 Feb 2018 • Maksym Byshkin, Alex Stivala, Antonietta Mira, Garry Robins, Alessandro Lomi
We demonstrate the performance of the EE algorithm in the context of exponential random graphmodels (ERGMs) a family of statistical models commonly used in empirical research based on network data observed at a single period in time.
1 code implementation • 13 Nov 2017 • Ritabrata Dutta, Marcel Schoengens, Lorenzo Pacchiardi, Avinash Ummadisingu, Nicole Widmer, Jukka-Pekka Onnela, Antonietta Mira
Further, ABCpy enables ABC experts to easily develop new inference schemes and evaluate them in a standardized environment and to extend the library with new algorithms.
Computation
no code implementations • 26 Sep 2017 • Ritabrata Dutta, Antonietta Mira, Jukka-Pekka Onnela
Although the underlying processes of transmission are different, the network approach can be used to study the spread of pathogens in a contact network or the spread of rumors in an online social network.