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Dynamic economic control charts for monitoring epidemics

15 August 2023

Host Faculty: Engineering

General Subject Area: Statistics and Data Science

Project Level: PhD

HOW TO APPLY

Control Charts have been developed in 1920s to monitor mass production, but since then have found application in a number of fields, including epidemiology. Control charts may be statistical, economic or a hybrid of both. Unlike the common economic control charts which decide between doing something "now and never", dynamic ones decide between taking the action now or waiting for more information to make the optimal decision later. Deriving the optimal decision making strategies analytically is often impossible, thus application of a machine learning method called reinforcement learning to derive optimal control charts will be investigated within this project.

 
Supervisors

Supervisor: Elena Moltchanova

 
Key qualifications and skills

Mathematical statistics/Statistical inference, good programming skills (R preferred)

 
Does the project come with funding

No

 
Final date for receiving applications

Ongoing

 
Keywords

economic control charts; stochastic epidemic modeling; epidemiology; reinforcement learning

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