A robust nonlinear mixed-effects model for COVID-19 death data
Fernanda L. Schumacher, Clécio S. Ferreira, Marcos O. Prates, Alberto Lachos, Victor H. Lachos
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The analysis of complex longitudinal data such as COVID-19 deaths is challenging due to several inherent features: (i) similarly-shaped profiles with different decay patterns; (ii) unexplained variation among repeated measurements within each country, possibly interpreted as clustered data since...
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The analysis of complex longitudinal data such as COVID-19 deaths is challenging due to several inherent features: (i) similarly-shaped profiles with different decay patterns; (ii) unexplained variation among repeated measurements within each country, possibly interpreted as clustered data since they are obtained from the same country at roughly the same time; and (iii) skewness, outliers or skewed heavy-tailed noises possibly embodied within response variables. This article formulates a robust nonlinear mixed effects model based on the class of scale mixtures of skew-normal distributions to model COVID-19 deaths, which allows analysts to model such data in the presence of the above described features simultaneously. An efficient EM-type algorithm is proposed to carry out maximum likelihood estimation of model parameters. The bootstrap method is used to determine inherent characteristics of the individual nonlinear profiles, such as confidence intervals of the predicted deaths and fitted curves. The specific target is to model COVID-19 death curves from some Latin American countries since this region is the new epicenter of the disease. Moreover, since a mixed-effect framework borrows information from the population-average effects, in our analysis we include some countries from Europe and North America that are in a more advanced stage of the COVID-19 death curve
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A robust nonlinear mixed-effects model for COVID-19 death data
Fernanda L. Schumacher, Clécio S. Ferreira, Marcos O. Prates, Alberto Lachos, Victor H. Lachos
A robust nonlinear mixed-effects model for COVID-19 death data
Fernanda L. Schumacher, Clécio S. Ferreira, Marcos O. Prates, Alberto Lachos, Victor H. Lachos
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Statistics and its interface Vol. 14, no. 1 (2021), p. 49-57 |