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  • Statistics
  • Epidemiology
  • Computational Science

Background:

  • Forecasting infectious disease dynamics is crucial for public health preparedness.
  • Accurate modeling of spatio-temporal disease spread, like COVID-19, aids in resource allocation and intervention strategies.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and evaluate a novel multiple objective space-time forecasting approach.
  • To apply this method to analyze COVID-19 mortality during the first wave in Spanish Communities.
  • To compare the proposed method against Machine Learning (ML) regression models.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized cyclical curve log-regression and multivariate time series spatial residual correlation analysis.
  • Minimized mean quadratic loss function within a trigonometric regression framework.
  • Employed Bayesian multivariate time series soft-data framework with likelihood maximization for posterior mode computation.
  • Conducted empirical comparative study using k-fold cross-validation and bootstrapping for ML models.

Main Results:

  • The proposed space-time forecasting approach demonstrated superior performance compared to ML regression models.
  • Analysis provided insights into COVID-19 mortality patterns in Spanish Communities during the initial phase of the pandemic.
  • Investigated the effectiveness of ML models in both hard- and soft-data frameworks.

Conclusions:

  • The developed space-time forecasting method is effective for analyzing and predicting infectious disease mortality.
  • Results suggest the approach's applicability to other count data, countries, and future COVID-19 waves.
  • The study highlights the importance of advanced statistical modeling for epidemiological surveillance.