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1Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Abstract:
The Omicron variant has led to a new wave of the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide, with unprecedented numbers of daily confirmed new cases in many countries and areas. To analyze the impact of society or policy changes on the development of the Omicron wave, the stochastic susceptible-infected-removed (SIR) model with change points is proposed to accommodate the situations where the transmission rate and the removal rate may vary significantly at change points. Bayesian inference based on a Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm is developed to estimate both the locations of change points as well as the transmission rate and removal rate within each stage. Experiments on simulated data reveal the effectiveness of the proposed method, and several stages are detected in analyzing the Omicron wave data in Singapore.
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