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  • Watching the guards: a data-driven method to trigger warnings in national wastewater surveillance networks 

    Bosch-Lladó, Lluís; Pueyo-Ros, Josep; Comas Cufí, Marc; Saldaña Meca, Joan; Ripoll Missé, Jordi; Calle Ortega, Eusebio; Fonseca Casas, Pau; Garcia Subirana, Joan; Borrego-More, Carles; Corominas Tabares, Lluis (2024-06-12)
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    Surveillance networks have been established in many countries worldwide to monitor SARS-CoV-2 in sewage and to estimate the communal prevalence of COVID-19 cases. Despite their popularity, gaining a rapid understanding of ...
  • On model-based time trend adjustments in platform trials with non-concurrent controls 

    Bofill Roig, Marta; Krotka, Pavla; Burman, Carl-Fredrik; Glimm, Ekkehard; Gold, Stefan M.; Hees, Katharina; Jacko, Peter; Koenig, Frank; Magirr, Dominic; Mesenbrink, Peter; Viele, Kert; Posch, Martin (Springer, 2022-08-15)
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    Platform trials can evaluate the efficacy of several experimental treatments compared to a control. The number of experimental treatments is not fixed, as arms may be added or removed as the trial progresses. Platform ...
  • NCC: An R-package for analysis and simulation of platform trials with non-concurrent controls 

    Krotka, Pavla; Hees, Katharina; Jacko, Peter; Magirr, Dominic; Posch, Martin; Bofill Roig, Marta (2023-07)
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    Platform trials evaluate the efficacy of multiple treatments, allowing for late entry of the experimental arms and enabling efficiency gains by sharing controls. The power of individual treatment-control comparisons in ...
  • A unified formal framework for factorial and probabilistic topic modelling 

    Gibert, Karina; Hernández Potiomkin, Yaroslav (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2023-10-21)
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    Topic modelling has become a highly popular technique for extracting knowledge from texts. It encompasses various method families, including Factorial methods, Probabilistic methods, and Natural Language Processing methods. ...
  • SurvLIMEpy: a Python package implementing SurvLIME 

    Pachón García, Cristian; Hernández Pérez, Carlos; Delicado Useros, Pedro Francisco; Vilaplana Besler, Verónica (2024-03-01)
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    In this paper we present SurvLIMEpy, an open-source Python package that implements the SurvLIME algorithm. This method allows to compute local feature importance for machine learning algorithms designed for modelling ...
  • Conditional poisson regression with random effects for the analysis of multi-site time series studies 

    Barrera Gómez, Jose Antonio; Puig Oriol, Xavier; Ginebra Molins, Josep; Basagaña Flores, Xavier (2023-09-12)
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    The analysis of time series studies linking daily counts of a health indicator with environmental variables (e.g., mortality or hospital admissions with air pollution concentrations or temperature; or motor vehicle crashes ...
  • Scalability evaluation of forecasting methods applied to bicycle sharing systems 

    Cortez Ordóñez, Alexandra Piedad; Vázquez Alcocer, Pere Pau; Sánchez Espigares, Josep Anton (Elsevier Ltd, 2023-10)
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    Public Bicycle Sharing Systems have spread in many cities for the last decade. The need of analysis tools to predict the behavior or estimate balancing needs has fostered a wide set of approaches that consider many variables. ...
  • Modeling SARS-CoV-2 true infections in Catalonia through a digital twin 

    Fonseca Casas, Pau; Garcia Subirana, Joan; García Carrasco, Víctor (John Wiley & sons, 2023-05-12)
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    A dynamic view of the evolution of the infections of SARS-CoV-2 in Cataloniausing a Digital Twin approach that forecasts the true infection curve ispresented. The forecast model incorporates the vaccination process, ...
  • The landscape of expression and alternative splicing variation across human traits 

    García Pérez, Raquel; Ramírez Cardeñosa, José Miguel; Ripoll Cladellas, Aida; Chazarra Gil, Rubén; Oliveros Díez, Winona; Soldatkina, Oleksandra; Bosio, Mattia; Rognon, Paul Joris Denis; Capella Gutiérrez, Salvador; Calvo Llorca, Miguel; Reverter Comes, Ferran; Guigo Serra, Roderic; Aguet, François; Ferreira, Pedro G.; Ardlie, Kristin G.; Mele Messeguer, Marta (Elsevier, 2023-01-11)
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    Understanding the consequences of individual transcriptome variation is fundamental to deciphering human biology and disease. We implement a statistical framework to quantify the contributions of 21 individual traits as ...
  • An approach based on simulation and optimisation for the intermodal dispatching of public transport and ride-pooling services 

    Lorente García, Ester; Codina Sancho, Esteve; Barceló Bugeda, Jaime; Nökel, Klaus (2023-03-16)
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    This paper provides a simulation and optimisation-based system to combine public transport (PT) with ride-pooling services (RP). According to the International Transport Forum (ITF), the RP could be established as a feeder ...
  • A mixture model application in monitoring error message rates for a distributed industrial fleet 

    Plandolit López, Bernat; Puig de Dou, Ignacio; Costigan, Gráinne; Puig Oriol, Xavier; Rodero de Lamo, Lourdes; Martínez Martínez, José Miguel (2022-11-01)
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    Remotely monitoring industrial printers for an unexpected increase of warning and error messages reduces equipment downtime and increases customer satisfaction. Directly tracking raw error messages rates during a given ...
  • Development of a platform for the assessment of demand-side flexibility in a microgrid laboratory 

    Etxandi Santolaya, Maite; Colet Subirachs, Alba; Barbero, Mattia; Corchero García, Cristina (2023-02-01)
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    Demand-side flexibility has gained attention as a powerful tool to increase the flexibility of the electricity system and counteract the uncertainties caused by the increase of Renewable Energy Sources. Up to date, few ...

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