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Leo Bastos
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Public health researcher at Fiocruz 🇧🇷
Associate professor at IMPA Tech 🇧🇷
Bayesian statistician 📈
Infectious diseases modelling 🦠🦟
Father of 3 boys (be nice).
Tati presented, in the same session, her work on epidemics bands for RSV hospitalizations in Brazil.
November 28, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Today, Lais presented her work on the impact of ENSO in dengue incidences in Brazil.

Oswaldo, on the right side, was chairing her session.
November 28, 2025 at 1:03 AM
I hope I can reduce my pace, and start working on fewer and slower projects.

I wish I could talk to myself before the pandemic. "You don't need to work that much, seriously it won't make any difference..."
October 15, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Each project alone is quite interesting, the problem is the large number of them that I got involved due to my profound difficulty of saying NO...

Today, I spent almost the whole day jumping from one online meeting to another, I even had lunch in front of my PC while attending another meeting.
a young boy in a yellow shirt is smiling with his eyes closed and making a funny face .
ALT: a young boy in a yellow shirt is smiling with his eyes closed and making a funny face .
media.tenor.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:46 AM
And I forgot to add in the thread the dashboard we made to show the results of the paper:

dcpcamara-picinini-freitas-et-al-2025.share.connect.posit.cloud
A statistical model for forecasting probabilistic epidemic bands for dengue cases in Brazil
dcpcamara-picinini-freitas-et-al-2025.share.connect.posit.cloud
September 4, 2025 at 6:52 PM
This way I don't forget mentioning anyone. :-) Thanks everyone.
September 4, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Here one can see how heterogeneous is the relationship between the observed dengue cases and the model predictions in country by health regions in the two seasons (2022-2023 and 2023-2024).
September 4, 2025 at 6:37 PM
We suggest the use of posterior predictive quantiles to define epidemic levels.
September 4, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I would suggest this one too.
July 26, 2025 at 11:06 PM
I would suggest Andrew Gelman's books

sites.stat.columbia.edu/gelman/books/

In particular, Bayesian Data Analysis and Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models.
sites.stat.columbia.edu
July 26, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Another curiosity, in 2001 as an undergrad stats student I attended the same (joint) conference, the 46th RBRAS and the 9th SEAGRO, in Piracicaba (SP). There I gave my very first oral presentation talking about the partition product model applied on a variance changing points problem.
July 24, 2025 at 1:07 AM
The conference is the 69th Annual Meeting of the Brazilian Region of the International Society of Biometrics (RBras) and the 21st Symposium on Statistics Applied to Agricultural Experimentation (SEAGRO).

69rbras21seagro.com.br
69ª Reunião Anual da Região Brasileira da Sociedade Internacional de Biometria (RBras) e do 21º Simpósio de Estatística Aplicada à Experimentação Agronômica – SEAGRO
69rbras21seagro.com.br
July 24, 2025 at 1:07 AM
This one is quite similar a species that I love and sometimes I can spot here in Rio.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazili...
Brazilian tanager - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
July 21, 2025 at 1:11 AM