Adaptive resources allocation CUSUM for binomial count data monitoring with application to COVID-19 hotspot detection

Jiuyun Hu, Yajun Mei, Sarah Holte and Hao Yan

Journal of Applied Statistics, 2023, vol. 50, issue 14, 2889-2913

Abstract: In this paper, we present an efficient statistical method (denoted as ‘Adaptive Resources Allocation CUSUM’) to robustly and efficiently detect the hotspot with limited sampling resources. Our main idea is to combine the multi-arm bandit (MAB) and change-point detection methods to balance the exploration and exploitation of resource allocation for hotspot detection. Further, a Bayesian weighted update is used to update the posterior distribution of the infection rate. Then, the upper confidence bound (UCB) is used for resource allocation and planning. Finally, CUSUM monitoring statistics to detect the change point as well as the change location. For performance evaluation, we compare the performance of the proposed method with several benchmark methods in the literature and showed the proposed algorithm is able to achieve a lower detection delay and higher detection precision. Finally, this method is applied to hotspot detection in a real case study of county-level daily positive COVID-19 cases in Washington State WA) and demonstrates the effectiveness with very limited distributed samples.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1080/02664763.2022.2117288

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