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Introduction to Scientific Programming - Module 1
Monday, May 15, through Tuesday, May 16, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Wednesday, May 17 from 8 a.m. to noon
Location: Warnell School of Forestry & Natural Resources | Computer Lab 201
Instructors: John Drake and Andrew Park
This two-and-a-half-day module introduces the principles and practice of scientific computing with special emphasis on analysis of infectious disease data. Programming will be done in R. Students will be taught how to create reproducible research documents using R and R Markdown and to use git/Github for collaborative and individual projects. An introduction to scientific programming will teach basic operations and classes of base R, installation and use of R packages, data import and transformation, flow control with loops, writing functions, calculating summary statistics, data visualization, and basic mapping. The module will alternate between lectures and computer labs.
Background Reading (optional): Hadley Wickham and Garret Grolemund. R for Data Science. 2017. O’Reilly.
Modeling Infectious Diseases - Module 2
Wednesday, May 17, from 1-5 p.m and Thursday, May 18, through Friday, May 19, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Location: Warnell School of Forestry & Natural Resources | Computer Lab 201
Instructors: John Drake and Pej Rohani
This two-and-a-half-day module covers the principles of dynamic models of infectious diseases. The module will focus on the dynamics of compartmental models such as the susceptible-infected-recovered (SIR) model and variants (SI, SIRS, and SEIR). Topics include incorporating different types of heterogeneities in transmission (resulting from age-structure, behavior or, seasonality), exact stochastic birth-death models, sensitivity analysis, and fitting of simple models to data. The module will alternate between lectures and computer labs. Programming will be done in R.
Background Reading (optional): Matt J. Keeling and Pejmani Rohani. Modeling Infectious Diseases in Humans and Animals. 2007. Princeton University Press.
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