Complex model calibration through emulation, a worked example for a stochastic epidemic model

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Dunne, Michael | Mohammadi, Hossein | Challenor, Peter | Borgo, Rita | Porphyre, Thibaud | Vernon, Ian | Firat, Elif | Turkay, Cagatay | Torsney-Weir, Thomas | Goldstein, Michael | Reeve, Richard | Fang, Hui | Swallow, Ben

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International audience. Uncertainty quantification is a formal paradigm of statistical estimation that aims to account for all uncertainties inherent in the modelling process of real-world complex systems. The methods are directly applicable to stochastic models in epidemiology, however they have thus far not been widely used in this context. In this paper, we provide a tutorial on uncertainty quantification of stochastic epidemic models, aiming to facilitate the use of the uncertainty quantification paradigm for practitioners with other complex stochastic simulators of applied systems. We provide a formal workflow including the important decisions and considerations that need to be taken, and illustrate the methods over a simple stochastic epidemic model of UK SARS-CoV-2 transmission and patient outcome. We also present new approaches to visualisation of outputs from sensitivity analyses and uncertainty quantification more generally in high input and/or output dimensions.

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