Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Jason Fernando is a professional investor and writer who enjoys tackling and communicating complex business and financial problems. Natalya Yashina is a CPA, DASM with over 12 years of experience in ...

Accurate dietary assessment plays a crucial role in public health by providing the evidence base needed to design, implement, and evaluate nutrition-related policies and interventions. Reliable ...

Flat prior (not usually recommended); Super-vague but proper prior: normal(0, 1e6) (not usually recommended); Weakly informative prior, very weak: normal(0, 10); Generic weakly informative prior: ...

aHospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA), Rua Ramiro Barcelos, 2350, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil bFaculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Rua Ramiro Barcelos, 2400, Porto ...

For many infectious diseases, a small fraction of individuals has been documented to disproportionately contribute to onward spread. Characterizing the extent of superspreading is a crucial step ...

MixALime is a tool for the identification of allele-specific variants (ASVs or allele-specific events, ASEs) in high-throughput sequencing data. It works by modelling counts data as a mixture of two ...

Background This study investigated inequalities in the distribution of green space (GS) and the association between inequalities in amounts of GS and preventable deaths across urban neighbourhoods ...

1 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London Ontario, Canada. 2 Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and ...

We developed a stochastic transmission model, parameterised to the COVID-19 outbreak. We used the model to quantify the potential effectiveness of contact tracing and isolation of cases at controlling ...