1 code implementation • 22 Mar 2020 • Rudolf Hanel, Stefan Thurner
Here we present a formula to estimate the optimal pooling size, the efficiency gain (tested persons per test), and the expected upper bound of missed infections in the pooled testing, all as a function of the populationwide infection levels and the false negative/positive rates of the currently used PCR tests.
Populations and Evolution Applications
no code implementations • 28 Dec 2018 • Rudolf Hanel, Stefan Thurner
We demonstrate that superimposing grammatical structure -- as a local word re-ordering (permutation) process -- on a sample-space reducing process is sufficient to explain both, word frequencies and word-to-word transition probabilities.
no code implementations • 17 Jul 2014 • Stefan Thurner, Rudolf Hanel, Bo Liu, Bernat Corominas-Murtra
The formation of sentences is a highly structured and history-dependent process.