COVID-19 (project page)
2020-07-24
Publications
Small Data, Big Time—A retrospect of the first weeks of COVID-19
To be read before The Royal Statistical Society at the Society’s 2021 annual conference held in Manchester on Wednesday, September 8th, 2021, the President, Professor Sylvia Richardson, in the Chair.
Letter to the editor: Generation interval for COVID-19 based on symptom onset data
The purpose of this letter is to raise a few issues with the methodology of a recent paper by Ganyani et al. [1], which aimed to …
BETS: The dangers of selection bias in early analyses of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic
We developed a generative model for key epidemiological events in COVID-19 patients and derived explicit formulae to correct for …
Analysis of the epidemic growth of the early 2019-nCoV outbreak using internationally confirmed cases
We analyzed 46 2019-nCoV cases confirmed in Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau who traveled from Wuhan before its …
Talks
Two High-Profile Examples of Selection Bias
This talk will examine the selection bias that occurred in studying some most contentious problems. In the first case study, we will …
2022-05-11 12:30 PM — 1:30 PM
Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences, University of Washington
Qingyuan Zhao. --
How infectious was COVID-19 when it first circulated in Wuhan?
This is given to A-level students.
2022-03-24 2:00 PM — 2:45 PM
Corpus Christi College Masterclass in Mathematics
Qingyuan Zhao. --
Small Data, Big Time—A retrospect of the first weeks of COVID-19
2021-09-08 5:15 PM — 7:15 PM
Manchester, UK
Qingyuan Zhao. --
Selection bias in 2020
This talk will examine the selection bias that occurred in studying some most contentious problems in 2020. In the first case study, we …
2020-12-08
Online Causal Inference Seminar (Zoom meeting)
Qingyuan Zhao. --