Hybrid Monday Lecture Series
(open to the Rockefeller community)
Monday, February 10, 2025
Joel Cohen, Ph.D., Dr.P.H.
Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Populations, The Rockefeller University
Older People Have More, and More Diverse, Chronic Comorbidities: Tests of Taylor’s Law of Fluctuation Scaling in Four U.S. Health Systems
Recommended Readings:
Truquet, Lionel, Joel E. Cohen, and Paul Doukhan. “Inferring the parameters of Taylor’s law in ecology.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.16023 (2024).
Cohen, Joel E., Richard A. Davis, and Gennady Samorodnitsky. “COVID-19 cases and deaths in the United States follow Taylor’s law for heavy-tailed distributions with infinite variance.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119.38 (2022): e2209234119.
Roffman, Caroline E., John Buchanan, and Garry T. Allison. “Charlson comorbidities index.” Journal of Physiotherapy 62.3 (2016): 171.
Barkin, Shari, David Schlundt, and Padget Smith. “Community-engaged research perspectives: then and now.” Academic Pediatrics 13.2 (2013): 93-97.
Taylor, Lionel Roy. “Aggregation, variance and the mean.” Nature 189.4766 (1961): 732-735.
