We are borrowing material from a short course on Simulation-Based Inference for Epidemiological Dynamics (SBIED). This short course uses the same notation as DATASCI/STATS 531 and shares an emphasis on likelihood methods for inference. Indeed, SBIED can be viewed as a sub-course within DATASCI/STATS 531. Although SBIED focuses on epidemiological examples, you can check from previous final projects for 2016, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022 that the ideas extend readily to a variety of other situations. Later, in Chapter 16, we will consider models for financial markets, which is another major area of application for nonlinear time series techniques.

Chapter 11 Part 2 has overlap with Chapter 10. It may be no bad thing to see the foundational material again, from a slightly different perspective. You are welcome to watch at 1.5 x speed if you are already comfortable with Chapter 10.

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Recording, Chapter 11, Part 1 Time series analysis and mechanistic models in ecology and epidemiology (20 mins)
Recording, Chapter 11, Part 2 Introduction to POMP models (22 mins)
Recording, Chapter 11, Part 3 The pomp R package for POMP models (7 mins)


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