Estimating the real burden of disease under a pandemic situation: The SARS-CoV2 case

Amanda Fernández-Fontelo, David Moriña, Alejandra Cabaña, Argimiro Arratia, Pere Puig, Paul K. Newton
2020 PLoS ONE  
The present paper introduces a new model used to study and analyse the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV2) epidemic-reported-data from Spain. This is a Hidden Markov Model whose hidden layer is a regeneration process with Poisson immigration, Po-INAR(1), together with a mechanism that allows the estimation of the under-reporting in non-stationary count time series. A novelty of the model is that the expectation of the unobserved process's innovations is a time-dependent
more » ... unction defined in such a way that information about the spread of an epidemic, as modelled through a Susceptible-Infectious-Removed dynamical system, is incorporated into the model. In addition, the parameter controlling the intensity of the under-reporting is also made to vary with time to adjust to possible seasonality or trend in the data. Maximum likelihood methods are used to estimate the parameters of the model.
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0242956 pmid:33270713 pmcid:PMC7714127 fatcat:pnsw64qccrfyjkmgfghpi6vs4a