BACKGROUND Dengue fever (DF) is a growing public health problem in Vietnam. The disease burden in Vietnam has been increasing for decades. In Hanoi, in contrast to many other regions, extrinsic drivers such as weather have not been proved to be predictive of disease frequency, which limits the usefulness of such factors in an early warning system. AIMS The purpose of this research was to revi...

Characterizing the information carried by neural populations in the brain requires accurate statistical models of neural spike responses. The negative-binomial distribution provides a convenient model for over-dispersed spike counts, that is, responses with greater-than-Poisson variability. Here we describe a powerful data-augmentation framework for fully Bayesian inference in neural models wit...

We study a sparse negative binomial regression (NBR) for count data by showing the non-asymptotic advantages of using elastic-net estimator. Two types oracle inequalities are derived NBR's estimates Compatibility Factor Condition and Stabil Condition. The second type inequality is random design can be extended to many $\ell_1 + \ell_2$ regularized M-estimations, with corresponding empirical pro...