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    Nowcasting and forecasting infectious disease dynamics 2026

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    Course Instructors

    Sebastian Funk,  London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

    Sam Abbott, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
    Katherine Sheratt, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

    Course contents:
    • delay distributions and how to estimate them; discrete convolutions
    • Rt estimation and the generation interval
    • nowcasting (i.e. correcting for right truncation in infectious disease count data)
    • forecasting and evaluation, ensemble methods

    Time and Place

    All lectures take place at Stockholm University in Campus Albano, house 1, level 2. See "    Registration and Venue" page for further details.

    Lecture times (includes also problem solving, tutorials, computer sessions, ...): 

    Monday June 22: 9.00-10.30, 11.00-12.30, 14.00-15.30, 16.00-17.30

    Tuesday June 23: 9.00-10.30, 11.00-12.30, 14.00-15.30, 16.00-17.30

    Wednesday June 24: 9.00-10.30, 11.00-12.30

    General prerequisites

    It is expected that course participants have basic knowledge of statistics and mathematics and rudimentary knowledge of infectious disease epidemiology. It is also expected that participants have basic computer software knowledge and preferably are familiar with the software R. 

    IMPORTANT: All participants are expected to bring a laptop with R installed on it.

    Additional prerequisites for this course

    Participant are expected to be familiar with R since this will be heavily used in the module.

    Relevant literature

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