Functional Data Analysis on Global COVID-19 Data
Asian Journal of Probability and Statistics,
Page 12-28
DOI:
10.9734/ajpas/2023/v21i1453
Abstract
No one can deny that COVID-19 has spread around the world and is still emerging as a new variation in some areas. Since the time of its breakout, three coronavirus waves have emerged. Daily cases of COVID-19 from 79 countries around the world were selected for the study. The main objective of this research was to model and analyze the behavior of the disease's first wave in the world and on the Asian continent using functional data analysis methods. Functional models were fitted to the data using B-spline basis functions at different orders, and the best-fit curves were further analyzed with respect to their functional behavior and the rate of change. These curves were visualized during the preliminary analysis and later clustered within each continent using functional cluster analysis. The results indicated that all continents, apart from Asia, had two clusters based on their functional behavior, whereas the world data had three clusters. All the continents except the Asian continent had different functional forms and numbers of peaks, but they all had the same number of clusters. The world's 18 countries were divided into two categories, with the remaining 61 countries clustered into a single group. The identified cluster indices were further modeled using multinomial logistic regression models with six popular health index variables. In the world, people over the age of 70 made a significant contribution to selecting cluster 2 over cluster 1 and cluster 3 over cluster 2. On the Asian continent, the female smoker variable preferred cluster 2 over cluster 1, while cluster 3 over cluster 1 could be determined by the median age variable. The findings of the overall study would be helpful for the researchers to understand the spread of the disease and the impact of the health indices on its functional behavior.
Keywords:
- COVID-19
- functional data analysis
- functional cluster analysis
- multinomial logistic regression
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