Brian Tarran
Brian Tarran
As the coronavirus pandemic took hold, there was little time for much else. © 2020 The Royal Statistical Society.
Ronald D Fricker Jr,Steven E Rigdon
Ronald D Fricker Jr
Teams of epidemiological and medical "detectives" are working to get a coronavirus pandemic under control. Ronald D. Fricker, Jr and Steven E. Rigdon walk us through a typical investigation. ...
Christl Donnelly,Azra Ghani
Christl Donnelly
Fitting transmission models to outbreak data allows key epidemiological parameters to be estimated and the impact of control measures to be evaluated. Christl Donnelly and Azra Ghani describe the use of such models in the 2003 SARS epidemic...
The brain science interface [0.03%]
脑科学界面
Sean Simpson,Jonathan Burdette,Paul Laurienti
Sean Simpson
The human brain consists of billions of neurons clustered into many different regions, each of which work together to give rise to complex human behaviour. But understanding how these regions are networked together - and the effect trauma a...
Walter Dempsey,Peng Liao,Pedja Klasnja et al.
Walter Dempsey et al.
Data from activity trackers and mobile phones can be used to craft personalised health interventions. But measuring the efficacy of these "treatments" requires a rethink of the traditional randomised trial.