Chimeric Forecasting: An experiment to leverage human judgment to improve forecasts of infectious disease using simulated surveillance data

Forecasts of infectious agents provide public health officials advanced warning about the intensity and timing of the spread of disease. Past work has found that accuracy and calibration of forecasts is weakest when attempting to predict an epidemic peak. Forecasts from a mechanistic model would be...

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Main Authors: Thomas McAndrew, Graham C. Gibson, David Braun, Abhishek Srivastava, Kate Brown
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2024-06-01
Series:Epidemics
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755436524000173