Limited ‘heft’ of weight-based outcomes in predicting influenza A virus disease severity in ferrets
Troy J. Kieran, Taronna R. Maines, Jessica A. Belser · 2026
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Kieran, Maines, and Belser question weight based measures in flu studies in ferrets, in work from twenty twenty-six. Animal virus studies often grade disease by fever height and weight loss after infection. How best to turn daily measures into model features had never been rigorously tested.
Data were pooled from ferrets given many influenza A viruses with a broad range of outcomes. The team assessed correlations and predictive performance for temperature and weight features. Weight based outcomes carried limited heft, as their title puts it. The finding urges modelers to test feature choices, not assume the most familiar measure predicts best.
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| CREATOR | Troy J. Kieran, Taronna R. Maines, Jessica A. Belser |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 54 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |