# Publicity
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## [About the Publicity category](https://community.epinowcast.org/t/about-the-publicity-category/21)
**Author:** [@samabbott](https://community.epinowcast.org/u/samabbott)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [22 August 2022 20:10 UTC](https://community.epinowcast.org/t/about-the-publicity-category/21 "2022-08-22T20:10:05Z")
This category is for sharing any work using or discussing Epinowcast, including publications and blog posts. We particularly encourage users to share any awesome research done with Epinowcast!
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## [Preprint: Overconfident estimates of the reproductive number from the Poisson renewal equation method](https://community.epinowcast.org/t/preprint-overconfident-estimates-of-the-reproductive-number-from-the-poisson-renewal-equation-method/378)
**Author:** [@barborasobolova](https://community.epinowcast.org/u/barborasobolova)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [30 January 2026 08:34 UTC](https://community.epinowcast.org/t/preprint-overconfident-estimates-of-the-reproductive-number-from-the-poisson-renewal-equation-method/378 "2026-01-30T08:34:59Z")
Hello everyone, I would like to bring some attention to a new post at the Epinowcast blog, that in turn summarizes a preprint discussing a shortcoming of the Poisson renewal equation method for estimating the effective …
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## [Nowcasting norovirus cases (shameless self plug)](https://community.epinowcast.org/t/nowcasting-norovirus-cases-shameless-self-plug/278)
**Author:** [@jonathon.mellor](https://community.epinowcast.org/u/jonathon.mellor)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [28 February 2025 17:01 UTC](https://community.epinowcast.org/t/nowcasting-norovirus-cases-shameless-self-plug/278 "2025-02-28T17:01:50Z")
My team at UKHSA’s paper on nowcasting norovirus methods has now been published here: An application of nowcasting methods: Cases of norovirus during the winter 2023/2024 in England | PLOS Computational Biology What we…
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## [New technical blog post from the CDC featuring epinowcast: Improving CDC’s Tools for Assessing Epidemic Growth](https://community.epinowcast.org/t/new-technical-blog-post-from-the-cdc-featuring-epinowcast-improving-cdc-s-tools-for-assessing-epidemic-growth/208)
**Author:** [@samabbott](https://community.epinowcast.org/u/samabbott)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [8 December 2023 17:56 UTC](https://community.epinowcast.org/t/new-technical-blog-post-from-the-cdc-featuring-epinowcast-improving-cdc-s-tools-for-assessing-epidemic-growth/208 "2023-12-08T17:56:45Z")
At CDC’s Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics, we are building modeling tools and computational pipelines so that we can do complicated data analyses quickly and accurately in response to epidemics. Our goal is…
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## [Lessons learned from collaborative nowcasting of COVID-19 hospitalizations in Germany](https://community.epinowcast.org/t/lessons-learned-from-collaborative-nowcasting-of-covid-19-hospitalizations-in-germany/152)
**Author:** [@samabbott](https://community.epinowcast.org/u/samabbott)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [8 May 2023 12:43 UTC](https://community.epinowcast.org/t/lessons-learned-from-collaborative-nowcasting-of-covid-19-hospitalizations-in-germany/152 "2023-05-08T12:43:55Z")
@johannes has written up a summary of their and @dwolffram recent project: " Lessons learned from collaborative nowcasting of COVID-19 hospitalizations in Germany" You can read the summary on our blog: https://www.epino…
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## [Nowcasting in a real-time analysis pipeline to estimate the effective reproduction number with missing data and reporting delay](https://community.epinowcast.org/t/nowcasting-in-a-real-time-analysis-pipeline-to-estimate-the-effective-reproduction-number-with-missing-data-and-reporting-delay/43)
**Author:** [@samabbott](https://community.epinowcast.org/u/samabbott)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [24 August 2022 10:01 UTC](https://community.epinowcast.org/t/nowcasting-in-a-real-time-analysis-pipeline-to-estimate-the-effective-reproduction-number-with-missing-data-and-reporting-delay/43 "2022-08-24T10:01:38Z")
We (Sebastian Funk and I) recently wrote up a small case study using simulated data looking at an outbreak setting where partially reported onsets are used to estimate the underlying effective reproduction number. Sharin…