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Methods for Reproducible Comparison of Strategies in Stochastic Modelling

2025-10-10 epidemiology Title + abstract only
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Stochastic simulations are often used to model real-world phenomena such as infectious disease dynamics. In this modelling, differing strategies are often compared to one another by comparing the model outputs each strategy results in. Hash-based matching, pseudo-random number generation is an approach for stochastic simulations that was originally developed by Pearson and Abbott in the hashprng package to overcome challenges with comparing model simulations in a way that considers the dependenc...

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