On regime changes of COVID-19 outbreak

A. Tchorbadjieff, L. P. Tomov, V. Velev, G. Dezhov, V. Manev and P. Mayster

Journal of Applied Statistics, 2023, vol. 50, issue 11-12, 2343-2359

Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has had a very serious impact on societies and caused large-scale economic changes and death toll worldwide. The first cases were detected in China, but soon the virus spread quickly worldwide and the intensity of newly reported infections grew high during this initial period almost everywhere. Later, despite all imposed measures, the intensity shifted abruptly multiple times during the two-year period between 2020 and 2022 causing waves of too high infection rates in almost every part of the world. To target this problem, we assume the data heterogeneity as multiple consecutive regime changes. The research study includes the development of a model based on automatic regime change detection and their combination with the linear birth-death process for long-run data fits. The results are empirically verified on data for 38 countries and US states for the period from February 2020 to April 2022. Finally, the initial phase (conditions) properties of infection development are studied.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1080/02664763.2023.2177625

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