[Population Modeling] Soliciting contributions for a population modeling paper

[Jacob Barhak]

Hi Olaf,

You attached your blurb as a document rather than as text,  so it does not
show in the archives well. It is a binary file not easily accesible through
a mobile device.

In the future, please avoid sending attachments to the list. Better send
links if necessary.

I decided to resubmit the text again,  so people will have access to the
text even if they don't receive it as an email.

I hope people can read this now.

          Jacob

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The Tufts Population Modeling group is interested in occurrence patterns of
developmental disabilities and their risk factors [1]. We take a bottom-up
approach in transition-likelihood simulations of birth cohorts. The idea is
to simulate disease occurrence in virtual populations that can be compared
to published data. We have come to call this approach “systems
epidemiology”[2], which involves observation in populations and population
modeling, in order to complement systems biology, which involves biological
experimentation and computational modeling of individual entities. Our
current project is centered around the question: What respective roles do
oxygen exposure and neonatal infection play in the etiology of retinopathy
of prematurity [3]?



1. Dammann, O. and P. Follett, Toward multi-scale computational modeling in
developmental disability research. Neuropediatrics, 2011. 42(3): p. 90-6.

2. Dammann, O., et al., Systems Epidemiology: What's in a Name? Online
Journal of Public Health Informatics, 2014. 6(3).

3. Hellstrom, A., L.E. Smith, and O. Dammann, Retinopathy of
prematurity. Lancet, 2013. 382(9902): p. 1445-57.



Olaf Dammann (Tufts Public Health)

Benjamin Hescott (Tufts Computer Science)

On Dec 9, 2014 10:51 AM, "Dammann, Olaf" <Olaf.Dammann at tufts.edu> wrote:

>  Dear Jacob & All,
>
> Grand idea! See attached for our 2 cents.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Olaf & Ben
>
>
>
> *From:* Jacob Barhak [mailto:jacob.barhak at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Monday, December 08, 2014 9:28 PM
> *To:* popmodwkgrpimag-news at simtk.org
> *Subject:* [Population Modeling] Soliciting contributions for a
> population modeling paper
>
>
>
> Greetings all population modeling members,
>
> Sergey and I discussed writing a population modeling paper. In the IMAG
> meeting we tried to define population modeling by a set of terms you can
> find in the IMAG site,  yet definition by example may be better.
>
> Therefore we are soliciting contributions from all list members. The idea
> would be to define this group by collecting examples of work from each
> member.
>
> To this end,  I would ask for everyone receiving this post to reply to it
> with one paragraph about what they do within population modeling. And
> please add at least one reference to own work.
>
> I volunteer to assemble the paragraphs and references into a paper and
> submit it to one of the SCS conferences using the names of all contributors
> who post to the list. You are  welcome to invite coleagues to join this
> thread or suggest another target venue to the paper.
>
> I look forward to read your introductions to your own work.
>
>          Jacob
>
> --
> Jacob Barhak Ph.D.
> http://sites.google.com/site/jacobbarhak/
>
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