Dirk Douwes-Schultz, Université de Montréal

Research

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Latest papers

A Comparison Between Markov Switching Zero‐Inflated and Hurdle Models for Spatio‐Temporal Infectious Disease Counts
Statistics in Medicine · 2025
Zika emergence, persistence, and transmission rate in Colombia: a nationwide application of a space-time Markov switching model.
Scientific reports · 2024
Markov switching zero-inflated space-time multinomial models for comparing multiple infectious diseases
Biostatistics · 2024 · first author

All 3 publications

3 publications.

01

A Comparison Between Markov Switching Zero‐Inflated and Hurdle Models for Spatio‐Temporal Infectious Disease Counts

Mingchi Xu, Dirk Douwes‐Schultz, Alexandra Mello Schmidt

Statistics in Medicine20251 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1002/sim.70135 PMID: 40474791

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Zika emergence, persistence, and transmission rate in Colombia: a nationwide application of a space-time Markov switching model.

Picinini Freitas L, Douwes-Schultz D, Schmidt AM, Ávila Monsalve B, Salazar Flórez JE, García-Balaguera C, Restrepo BN, Jaramillo-Ramirez GI, Carabali M, Zinszer K

Scientific reports20248 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-59976-7 PMID: 38693192

03

Markov switching zero-inflated space-time multinomial models for comparing multiple infectious diseases

Dirk Douwes‐Schultz, Alexandra Mello Schmidt, Laís Picinini Freitas, Marília Sá Carvalho

Biostatistics2024First authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxaf034 PMID: 41206898

Frequent collaborators

Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health
Département de mathématiques et de statistique
Département de médecine sociale et préventive

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Alexandra Schmidt

Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health

3 shared papers, latest 2025

Kate Zinszer

Département de médecine sociale et préventive

1 shared papers, latest 2024

Mabel Carabali

Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health

1 shared papers, latest 2024

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