Joint Modeling of Two Stochastic Processes, with Application to Learning Hospitalization Dynamics from Wastewater Viral Concentrations
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| author | Peng, K. Ken Dean, Charmaine B. Delatolla, Robert Hu, X. Joan Renouf, Elizabeth |
| author_facet | Peng, K. Ken Dean, Charmaine B. Delatolla, Robert Hu, X. Joan Renouf, Elizabeth |
| contents | In the post-pandemic era of COVID-19, hospitalization remains a primary public health concern and wastewater surveillance has become an important tool for monitoring its dynamics at the level of community. However, there is usually no sufficient information to know the infection process that results in both wastewater viral signals and hospital admissions. That key challenge has motived a statistical framework proposed in this paper. We formulate the connection of overtime wastewater viral signals and hospitalization counts through a latent process of infection at the level of individual subject. We provide a strategy for accommodating aggregated data, a typical form of surveillance data. Moreover, we ease the conventional procedure of the statistical learning with the joint modeling using available information on the infection process, which can be under-reporting. A simulation study demonstrates that the proposed approach yields stable inference under different degrees of under-ascertainment. The COVID-19 surveillance data from Ottawa, Canada shows that the framework recovers coherent temporal patterns in infection prevalence and variant-specific hospitalization risk under several reporting assumptions. |
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| spellingShingle | Joint Modeling of Two Stochastic Processes, with Application to Learning Hospitalization Dynamics from Wastewater Viral Concentrations Peng, K. Ken Dean, Charmaine B. Delatolla, Robert Hu, X. Joan Renouf, Elizabeth Methodology Applications In the post-pandemic era of COVID-19, hospitalization remains a primary public health concern and wastewater surveillance has become an important tool for monitoring its dynamics at the level of community. However, there is usually no sufficient information to know the infection process that results in both wastewater viral signals and hospital admissions. That key challenge has motived a statistical framework proposed in this paper. We formulate the connection of overtime wastewater viral signals and hospitalization counts through a latent process of infection at the level of individual subject. We provide a strategy for accommodating aggregated data, a typical form of surveillance data. Moreover, we ease the conventional procedure of the statistical learning with the joint modeling using available information on the infection process, which can be under-reporting. A simulation study demonstrates that the proposed approach yields stable inference under different degrees of under-ascertainment. The COVID-19 surveillance data from Ottawa, Canada shows that the framework recovers coherent temporal patterns in infection prevalence and variant-specific hospitalization risk under several reporting assumptions. |
| title | Joint Modeling of Two Stochastic Processes, with Application to Learning Hospitalization Dynamics from Wastewater Viral Concentrations |
| topic | Methodology Applications |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.07977 |