Robust Minimal Markov Model for Dengue Virus Type 3

Jesús E. García () and V. A. González-López ()
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Jesús E. García: University of Campinas, Department of Statistics
V. A. González-López: University of Campinas, Department of Statistics

Chapter Chapter 21 in Demography of Population Health, Aging and Health Expenditures, 2020, pp 335-346 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In this paper, we combine two strategies to improve the final model representing a set of independent samples. We consider a set of independent samples coming from Markovian processes of finite order and finite alphabet. Under the assumption of the existence of a law that prevails in at least 50% of the samples of the collection, we identify samples governed by the predominant law (Fernández et al (2019) Math Methods Appl Sci. https://doi.org/10.1002/mma.5705 ). The approach is based on a local metric between samples, which tends to zero when we compare samples of identical law and tends to infinity when comparing samples with different laws. The local metric allows defining a criterion which takes arbitrarily large values when the previous assumption about the existence of a predominant law does not hold. By means of this procedure, we select the samples which will be used to establish a minimal Markov model from the whole set of samples (Garc ı́a and González-López (2017) Entropy 19(4):160). These procedures were applied to nine complete genomic sequences of Dengue virus type 3 (DENV3), from the outbreak occurred in Henan, China, in 2013. The final model of the Henan set was built using the most representative sequences. It can be described by fourteen basic units (parts). The states that compound each of these basic units share the same transition probability for any element of the genomic alphabet A = {a, c, g, t}. We note that six of these units show a predilection for choosing the element a as next element, while the other two units prefer the element g as the next element.

Keywords: Classification; of; stochastic; samples; -; Metric; between; sequences; -; Partition; Markov; models (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-44695-6_21

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