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  • Epidemiology
  • Complex Systems Analysis
  • Time Series Forecasting

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  • The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the need for effective infectious disease progression analysis.
  • Traditional epidemiological models require data fitting, yet direct evaluation of noisy, non-linear time series is possible.
  • Short-term forecasting capabilities are essential for practical epidemiological analytics.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate a novel, model-independent approach for analyzing and forecasting non-linear time series.
  • To assess the utility of time-lagged analyses and feature-space plots for predicting disease spread.
  • To determine if machine learning can provide accurate short-range forecasts without traditional model-building.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized normalized new infections per day (7-day moving average per million inhabitants) from Our World in Data.
  • Applied time-lagged analyses and feature-space plots incorporating time-lagged data.
  • Validated the method on unrelated non-linear time series from stock markets and blowfly populations.

Main Results:

  • Machine learning models achieved excellent progression predictions using approximately 80% of time series data for training.
  • Feature-space plots, after dynamic calibration, showed spikes in the maximum local Lyapunov exponent coinciding with infectious spread peaks.
  • Average mutual information analysis revealed anticipatory signals for new infection peaks over various time lags and wavelengths.

Conclusions:

  • Non-linear time series analysis can extract predictive characteristics for short-range forecasting without model-building.
  • Time-lagged analysis offers a robust foundation for analyzing complex temporal data.
  • Machine learning approaches demonstrated superior prognosticative performance in this model-independent framework.