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Notes, tutorials, and practical ideas in plant disease epidemiology.

This space brings together short notes, tutorials, and applied modeling content connected to plant pathology, quantitative epidemiology, and data science.

Simulating epidemics with epifitter: initial inoculum and infection rate

A technical discussion of y0 and r in disease progress curves using the epifitter package

Apr 12, 2026

Kaique Alves

Modeling plant disease yield loss: attainable yield, slope, damage coefficient, mixed-effects models, and meta-analysis

A technical introduction to yield loss modeling in plant pathology, from damage functions to mixed-effects and meta-analytic frameworks

Apr 12, 2026

Kaique Alves

Fungal sensitivity to fungicides in R

How to estimate EC50 in R

May 8, 2022

Kaique Alves