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ArticleJournal of environmental and public health2021

Zero-Inflated Time Series Modelling of COVID-19 Deaths in Ghana.

Kassim Tawiah, Wahab Abdul Iddrisu, Killian Asampana Asosega

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Kassim TawiahDepartment of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Energy and Natural Resources, Sunyani, Ghana.ORCID 0000-0003-0195-225X
Wahab Abdul IddrisuDepartment of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Energy and Natural Resources, Sunyani, Ghana.
Killian Asampana AsosegaDepartment of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Energy and Natural Resources, Sunyani, Ghana.ORCID 0000-0002-3140-2649

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Abstract

Discrete count time series data with an excessive number of zeros have warranted the development of zero-inflated time series models to incorporate the inflation of zeros and the overdispersion that comes with it. In this paper, we investigated the characteristics of the trend of daily count of COVID-19 deaths in Ghana using zero-inflated models. We envisaged that the trend of COVID-19 deaths per day in Ghana portrays a general increase from the onset of the pandemic in the country to about day 160 after which there is a general decrease onward. We fitted a zero-inflated Poisson autoregressive model and zero-inflated negative binomial autoregressive model to the data in the partial-likelihood framework. The zero-inflated negative binomial autoregressive model outperformed the zero-inflated Poisson autoregressive model. On the other hand, the dynamic zero-inflated Poisson autoregressive model performed better than the dynamic negative binomial autoregressive model. The predicted new death based on the zero-inflated negative binomial autoregressive model indicated that Ghana's COVID-19 death per day will rise sharply few days after 30

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Models, StatisticalBinomial DistributionCOVID-19GhanaHumansInterrupted Time Series AnalysisMortalityPoisson DistributionReproducibility of ResultsSARS-CoV-2

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PMID34012470
PMCPMC8086432

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