Hybrid prediction of infections and deaths due to COVID-19 in two Colombian data series.

PLoS One

Grupo de Investigación y Asesoría en Estadística, Universidad del Quindío, Armenia, Quindío, Colombia.

Published: June 2023

The prediction of the number of infected and dead due to COVID-19 has challenged scientists and government bodies, prompting them to formulate public policies to control the virus' spread and public health emergency worldwide. In this sense, we propose a hybrid method that combines the SIRD mathematical model, whose parameters are estimated via Bayesian inference with a seasonal ARIMA model. Our approach considers that notifications of both, infections and deaths are realizations of a time series process, so that components such as non-stationarity, trend, autocorrelation and/or stochastic seasonal patterns, among others, must be taken into account in the fitting of any mathematical model. The method is applied to data from two Colombian cities, and as hypothesized, the prediction outperforms the obtained with the fit of only the SIRD model. In addition, a simulation study is presented to assess the quality of the estimators of SIRD model in the inverse problem solution.

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