Abstract
Infectious disease data can often involve complex spatial patterns intermixed with temporal trends. Archetypal Analysis is a method to mine complex spatio-temporal data, and can be used to discover the dynamics of spatial patterns. The application of Archetypal Analysis to epidemiological data is relatively new, and here we present one of the first applications on COVID-19 data from March 13, 2020 to April 26, 2022, for the counties of Montana, USA. We present three views of the data set decomposed with Archetypal Analysis. First, we evaluate the entire 56 county data set. Second, we use a mutual information calculation to remove counties whose dynamics are mainly independent from the other counties, reducing the set to 17 counties. Finally, we analyze the top ten counties in terms of population size to focus on the dynamics in the large cities in the state. For each data set, we analyze four significant disease outbreaks across Montana. Archetypal Analysis uncovers distinct spatial patterns for each outbreak and demonstrates that each has a unique trajectory across the state.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | e0283265 |
| Pages (from-to) | e0283265 |
| Journal | PLoS ONE |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| State | Published - Jan 3 2024 |
Funding
Funding: EL: This research was supported by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of 428 the National Institutes of Health (NIH), United States [Award Number P20GM130418] nigms.nih. gov The funders did not play any role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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| P20GM130418 |
Keywords
- Animals
- COVID-19/epidemiology
- Cities
- Disease Outbreaks
- Humans
- Montana/epidemiology
- Orthoptera
- Population Density
