Hi there 👋
I'm an infectious disease researcher interested in real-time analysis, forecasting, semi-mechanistic modelling, and open source tool development. More on my research interests here.
NOW
- Working at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in the Epiforecasts group;
⭐ Crafting extensions to forecast.vocs📦 ;✨ Crafted last epinowcast📦 ;🧻 Currently working on:- Estimation of the test to test distribution as a proxy for generation interval distribution for the Omicron variant in England
- Real-time estimation of the time-varying transmission advantage of Omicron in England using S-Gene Target Status as a Proxy
- Evaluating the use of real-time sequences for short-term forecasting
- Evaluating a new method for nowcasting right truncated count data.
BIO
🏢 I'm currently working at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine📜 I did my PhD at the University of Bristol⚙️ I use daily:R,stan🏗️ I like to perform analysis using novel models on interesting data and generalise those approaches into software📦 s🌍 I'm mostly active within the R Community🌱 Learning all about Julia and Turing.jl📘 Reading all of China Miéville's work.💬 Ping me about statistical modelling of infectious diseases, real-time analysis of infectious diseases, estimating transmission dynamics in real-time, and team science opportunities📫 Reach me: sam.abbott@lshtm.ac.uk