Articles

Vaccine
Understanding waning immunityWhat can we expect from a disease for which natural or vaccine induced immunity wanes?
normal curves
Maths in a minute: The normal distributionIt's so ubiquitous it's normal!
gamma distribution
Maths in a minute: The gamma distributionHow long do you have to wait for more than one thing to happen?
dice
Maths in a minute: Probability distributionsThey are incredibly useful, but what exactly are they?
exponential distribution
Maths in a minute: The exponential distributionHow long do you have to wait for something to happen?
Poisson distribution
Maths in a minute: The Poisson distributionWhat's the chance that something happens?
die
Maths in a minute: The binomial distributionMeasuring your chance of success.
network of people
Why the generation time of COVID-19 is importantTo work out the famous R number you need to know the time between infections.
clock
Understanding the generation time for COVID-19How long does it take for one person to infect another?
icon
ParabolatiA beautiful argument to show that all parabolae are similar.
virus
How to work out doubling timeThe doubling time for the Omicron variant seems to be scarily fast. But how do you calculate it?
money
Maths in a minute: QALYsWhat's a quality adjusted life year, or QALY?