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SOP4CWD Publications

The SOP4CWD collaboration publishes its work in the form of peer-reviewed manuscripts, code for models, and open source data sets. Models that appear in the CWD Data Warehouse are based on published manuscripts.

Peer-reviewed Publications

Epizootic Risk Model

Hanley B, Carstensen M, Walsh D, Christensen S, Storm D, Booth J, Guinness J, Them C, Ahmed M, & Schuler K. 2022. Informing surveillance through the characterization of outbreak potential of chronic wasting disease in white-tailed deer. Ecological Modelling. 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2022.110054.

Home Range Contamination Model

Walter W, Hanley B, Them C, Mitchell C, Kelly J, Grove D, Hollingshead N, Abbott R, Schuler K. 2024. Predicting the odds of chronic wasting disease with the Habitat Risk software. Spatio and Spatio-Temporal Epidemiology. 10.1016/j.sste.2024.100650.

Positive County Predictor Model

Ahmed M, Hanley B, Mitchell C, Abbott R, Hollingshead N, Booth J, Guinness J, Jennelle C, Hodel F, Gonzalez-Crespo C, Middaugh C, Ballard J, Clemons B, Killmaster C, Harms T, Caudell J, Westrich W, McCallen E, Casey C, O’Brien L, Trudeau J, Stewart C, Carstensen M, McKinley W, Hynes K, Stevens A, Miller L, Cook M, Meyers R, Shaw J, Tonkovich M, Kelly J, Grove D, Storm D, & Schuler K. 2024. Predicting chronic wasting disease in white-tailed deer at the county scale using machine learning. Scientific Reports. 10.1038/s41598-024-65002-7.

Risk-weighted Surveillance Quotas Model

Schuler K, Hollingshead N, Heerkens S, Kelly J, Hurst J, Abbott R, Hanley B, Collins E, Hynes K. A “hazard model” using risk-weighted surveillance for first detection of chronic wasting disease. In peer review.

Sample Allocation using Optimal Control Model

Wang J, Hanley B, Thompson N, Gong Y, Walsh D, Huang Y, Gonzalez-Crespo C, Booth J, Caudell J, Hynes K, Miller L, Schuler K. Strategic planning of prevention and surveillance for emerging infectious disease. In peer review.

Sample Size for Multiple Groups

Booth J, Hanley B, Hodel F, Jennelle C, Guinness J, Them C, Mitchell C, Ahmed S, Schuler, K. 2023. Sample size for estimating disease prevalence in free-ranging wildlife: a Bayesian modeling approach. Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics. 10.1007/s13253-023-00578-7.

Booth J, Hanley B, Thompson N, Gonzalez-Crespo C, Christensen S, Jennelle C, Caudell J, Delisle Z, Guinness J, Hollingshead N, Them C, Schuler K. 2025. Management agencies can leverage animal social structure for wildlife disease surveillance. Journal of Wildlife Diseases. 10.7589/JWD-D-24-00079.

Statistical Sample Quotas using Clustering

Booth J, Hanley B, Hodel F, Jennelle C, Guinness J, Them C, Mitchell C, Ahmed S, Schuler, K. 2023. Sample size for estimating disease prevalence in free-ranging wildlife: a Bayesian modeling approach. Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics. 10.1007/s13253-023-00578-7.

Booth J, Hanley B, Thompson N, Gonzalez-Crespo C, Christensen S, Jennelle C, Caudell J, Delisle Z, Guinness J, Hollingshead N, Them C, Schuler K. 2025. Management agencies can leverage animal social structure for wildlife disease surveillance. Journal of Wildlife Diseases. 10.7589/JWD-D-24-00079.

External models linked through the CWD Data Warehouse using the Prevalence Estimator Data Export and Disease Cluster Analysis Data Export tools are published in peer reviewed journals but are not products of SOP4CWD. Please see the documentation in the external models for the underlying publications.

Open Code for Warehouse Models

All code used in the CWD Data Warehouse is openly shared through the Cornell Wildlife Health Lab GitHub Repository with an MIT licence. CWHL Public GitHub.

Open Source Datasets

Schuler K, Hanley B, Abbott RC, Dayan DB, Hollingshead N, Ballard JR, Middaugh CR, Cunningham M, Clemons B, Sayler K, Kelly J, Killmaster CH, Harms T, Ruden RM, Caudell J, Westrich MB, McCallen E, Casey C, O'Brien LM, Trudeau J, Straka K, Stewart C, Carstensen M, McKinley W, Hynes K, Ableman A, Miller L, Cook M, Myers R, Shaw J, Van de Berg S, Tonkovich M, Grove, D, Storm DJ. 2024. North American wildlife agency CWD testing and ancillary data (2000 – 2021; Version 2). Cornell University Library eCommons Repository. 10.7298/7txw-2681.2.