Class Schedule
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Background Materials
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Day 1
Lecture 1 – part 1 (click for slides)
Lecture 1 – part 2 (click for slides)
Lecture 2 – basic dynamics of SIR models (click for slides)
Suggested reading for Lecture 2:
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature02007
R session – Intro to Modeling (click here for R code and instructions)
Day 1 lecture recording (click here for video)
Day 2
Lecture 3 – vaccination (click here for slides)
Lecture 4 – heterogeneity (click here for slides)
Lecture 5 – heterogeneity & SES (click here for slides)
R session – Heterogeneity (click here for R code and instructions on GitHub)
Day 2 recording (click here for video)
Day 3
Panel Discussion:
click here to learn about Dr. Lauren Ancel Meyers
click here to learn about Dr. Jacco Wallinga
Lecture 6 – parameter estimation (click here for slides)
Suggested reading for Lecture 6:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0869-5#change-history
https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/160/6/509/79472
https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008409
Lecture 7 – confronting models with data (click here for slides)
R session – parameter estimation documents:
click here for Estimation R Code
click here for Estimation Data Set
Lecture 8 – Stochasticity and Uncertainty (click here for slides)
Certificates of Completion.
Certificates of completion for each module will be available through your registration account shortly after you complete the online Summer Institute evaluations. There will be an evaluation for each module along with an overall institute evaluation that will appear in your dashboard after you complete your last module.
To access evaluations, log in at https://si.biostat.washington.edu/user/login, click My Account in the upper right, the evaluations will appear on your dashboard. After you have completed your evaluations, a link to download the certificate of completion will appear within 24 hours. Certificates are generated through the registration system and, occasionally, names and module titles lose their formatting. If this is the case, please email nelsod6@uw.edu and we will get you a corrected copy