UB experts collaborate with the Spanish Committee for Mathematics regarding the COVID-19 health crisis

Predictions by main researchers will contribute to make a cooperative predictor based on optimized combinations of predictions from different mathematic models.
Predictions by main researchers will contribute to make a cooperative predictor based on optimized combinations of predictions from different mathematic models.
Research
(04/05/2020)

Providing the authorities with information of the short-term behaviour of several variables on the spread of SARS-CoV-2 is the main goal of an initiative promoted by the Spanish Committee for Mathematics (CEMAT) in which several experts from the University of Barcelona are taking part.


Predictions by main researchers will contribute to make a cooperative predictor based on optimized combinations of predictions from different mathematic models.
Predictions by main researchers will contribute to make a cooperative predictor based on optimized combinations of predictions from different mathematic models.
Research
04/05/2020

Providing the authorities with information of the short-term behaviour of several variables on the spread of SARS-CoV-2 is the main goal of an initiative promoted by the Spanish Committee for Mathematics (CEMAT) in which several experts from the University of Barcelona are taking part.


With this aim, CEMAT calls all researchers who are interested in collaborating in this collective intelligence task and fight against the COVID-19 health crisis. Predictions by main researchers will contribute to make a cooperative predictor based on optimized combinations of predictions from different mathematic models disaggregated by autonomous communities. As part of this initiative, the precision of predictions will be evaluated according to the official database made by the Health Institute Carlos III.


Regarding the UB research field, participants in the initiative are the COVID-19 Prediction Group, led by the lecturer of the Faculty of Biology Antoni Monleón Getino, member of the Research Group on Biostatistics and Bioinformatics (GRBIO) -integrated in the platform Bioinformatics Barcelona (BIB)-, and the lecturer Jaume Canela Soler, from the Department of Basic Clinical Practice of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of the UB, and the Research Group on Risk in Insurance and Finance (RISKCENTER), led by Professor Montserrat Guillén, from the Department of Econometrics, Statistics, and Applied Economics of the Faculty of Economics and Business of the UB.


Created in 2004, CEMAT is an entity aimed to coordinate the mathematical activity in Spain related to the International Mathematical Union (IMU) and to promote the representation of the country in international mathematical organizations.