Bayesian epidemic alignment for causal evaluation of seasonal infectious-disease interventions
用于季节性传染病干预因果评估的贝叶斯疫情对齐
Seasonal infectious-disease interventions are commonly evaluated with interrupted time-series or pre--post designs that align epidemics by calendar week. When epidemic onset, speed or peak timing differs between seasons, such comparisons confound a shift in epidemic phase with a change in disease burden. We propose a Bayesian causal count model in which season-specific affine transformations map calendar time to a latent epidemic clock, and intervention effects are estimated…