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Alison Walsh
dblp:166/5165
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
0since 2021 · last 2015
0000-0002-6123-5730ORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning · 100% | |
| Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper |
Medical and health informatics · 100% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 2, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning › structured models › latent variable model
hidden markov model |
0.2 | 1 | 2015 | Hierarchical Graph-Coupled HMMs for Heterogeneous Personalized Health Data · KDD 2015 |
Medical and health informatics › infectious disease modeling
disease transmission modeling |
0.2 | 1 | 2015 | Hierarchical Graph-Coupled HMMs for Heterogeneous Personalized Health Data · KDD 2015 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
sigmoid link · 0.4beta-exponential link · 0.4bayesian hierarchical modeling · 0.4
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Hierarchical Graph-Coupled HMMs for Heterogeneous Personalized Health DataabstractThe purpose of this study is to leverage modern technology (mobile or web apps) to enrich epidemiology data and infer the transmission of disease. We develop hierarchical Graph-Coupled Hidden Markov Models (hGCHMMs) to simultaneously track the spread of infection in a small cell phone community and capture person-specific infection parameters by leveraging a link prior that incorporates additional covariates. In this paper we investigate two link functions, the beta-exponential link and sigmoid link, both of which allow the development of a principled Bayesian hierarchical framework for disease transmission. The results of our model allow us to predict the probability of infection for each persons on each day, and also to infer personal physical vulnerability and the relevant association with covariates. We demonstrate our approach theoretically and experimentally on both simulation data and real epidemiological records. Kai Fan 0002, Marisa C. Eisenberg, Alison Walsh, Allison Aiello, Katherine A. Heller |
KDD | 3 |