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| author | Bouzalmat, Ibrahim de Saporta, Benoîte Manou-Abi, Solym M. |
| author_facet | Bouzalmat, Ibrahim de Saporta, Benoîte Manou-Abi, Solym M. |
| contents | In this paper, we use a linear birth and death process with immigration to model infectious disease propagation when contamination stems from both person-to-person contact and contact with the environment. Our aim is to estimate the parameters of the process. The main originality and difficulty comes from the observation scheme. Counts of infected population are hidden. The only data available are periodic cumulated new retired counts. Although very common in epidemiology, this observation scheme is mathematically challenging even for such a standard stochastic process. We first derive an analytic expression of the unknown parameters as functions of well-chosen discrete time transition probabilities. Second, we extend and adapt the standard Baum-Welch algorithm in order to estimate the said discrete time transition probabilities in our hidden data framework. The performance of our estimators is illustrated both on synthetic data and real data of typhoid fever in Mayotte. |
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| spellingShingle | Parameter estimation for a hidden linear birth and death process with immigration Bouzalmat, Ibrahim de Saporta, Benoîte Manou-Abi, Solym M. Statistics Theory Methodology 62M05, 92D30, 60J75 In this paper, we use a linear birth and death process with immigration to model infectious disease propagation when contamination stems from both person-to-person contact and contact with the environment. Our aim is to estimate the parameters of the process. The main originality and difficulty comes from the observation scheme. Counts of infected population are hidden. The only data available are periodic cumulated new retired counts. Although very common in epidemiology, this observation scheme is mathematically challenging even for such a standard stochastic process. We first derive an analytic expression of the unknown parameters as functions of well-chosen discrete time transition probabilities. Second, we extend and adapt the standard Baum-Welch algorithm in order to estimate the said discrete time transition probabilities in our hidden data framework. The performance of our estimators is illustrated both on synthetic data and real data of typhoid fever in Mayotte. |
| title | Parameter estimation for a hidden linear birth and death process with immigration |
| topic | Statistics Theory Methodology 62M05, 92D30, 60J75 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.00531 |