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Wastewater-informed COVID-19 forecasting models submitted to the COVID-19 Forecast Hub
https://cdcgov.github.io/wastewater-informed-covid-forecasting/
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Mixture model to handle outliers within model #76

Open kaitejohnson opened 1 week ago

kaitejohnson commented 1 week ago

Problem

We currently have a separate outlier handling step. We probably want to instead incorporate outlier detection directly into the generative model. One option for doing this is using mixture model, as is described here: https://betanalpha.github.io/assets/case_studies/identifying_mixture_models.html https://betanalpha.github.io/assets/case_studies/mixture_models.html

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