Publications by Dr Gurpreet Singh, Dr Biju Soman
Spatial Interpolation using Inverse Distance Weighing (IDW) in R
1 Introduction. This markdown file is adapted from Applied Spatial Analysis in Public Health online course available from https://hughst.github.io/. We would like to thank the contributors of the course who have provided the datasets and course in open domain. Spatial interpolation is done to estimate spatial variation in risk of continous spatia...
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Illustration: Infected Cohort models using R
1 Introduction. The present document has been prepared to illustrate the process of IDM using R to Master of Public Health students at Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology. 2 Load Library. Library deSolve and tidyverse has been used in the present document. 3 Framewor...
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Steps in Infectious Disease Modeling
1 Introduction. The occurence of COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of infectios disease modeling (IDM) in Public Health decision making for infectious disease prevention and control. Though concepts and application of IDM has been used since long, a very few public health specialists are provided with formal training. 2 Expectatio...
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Handling increasing complexities for Infectious Disease Modeling using R
1 Introduction. This document is an attempt to demonstrate the handling of increasing complexities in IDM using R. It is further to the last session wherein we learned about using deSolve package for development and analysis of Infected Cohort models. 2 Revision: Framework for mathematical modeling It is considered as a good practice to draw the...
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Information from models to understand outbreak situation: An illustrative example using COVID-19 data
1 Introduction. The present document aims to provide understanding on use of IDM concepts to undertake the situational assessment of an epidemic/ outbreak/ pandemic by plotting epidemic curves and calculating effective reproduction numbers \(R_{eff}\), growth rates and doubling time. We shall be using incidence and tidyverse packages for the same...
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Private COVID Vaccination Centre under AB-PMJAY and CGHS near you!
Private COVID Vaccination Centre under AB-PMJAY near you! India Column India has launched phase 2 of COVID vaccination program. To fasten the progress of vaccination program, selected private hospitals have been made vaccination centres. “States can use 10,000 hospitals under AB-PMJAY and 687 hospitals under CGHS as Covid-19 vaccination c...
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