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| | DIMACS Working Group on Order-theoretic Aspects of Epidemiology |
 | | This working group will study how fundamental order-theoretic concepts of TCS and DM such as semiorders, interval orders, general partial orders, and lattices [Fishburn (1985), Trotter (1992)] can be used to improve the results of epidemiological investigations. |
 | | The point lattice construction has found uses in epidemiology through visualizing the relationships of all possible contingency tables to various statistics, effect measures, and cut-off choices (see, e.g., [Ozonoff and Webster (1997)]) and has also been used in statistics (see [Narayana (1979)]). |
 | | We will build upon a large literature in TCS dealing with order relations, computing them, approximating them, visualizing them, and assigning measures to them, but we will not be building upon a large body of work connecting these ideas to epidemiology, mostly upon the view of several active epidemiologists that these ideas are relevant. |
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