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ArticleSpatial and spatio-temporal epidemiology2022

A weighted approach for spatio-temporal clustering of COVID-19 spread in Italy.

Raffaele Mattera

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Article in Spatial and spatio-temporal epidemiology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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  2. Multivariate Kalman filtering for spatio-temporal processes.Stochastic environmental research and risk assessment : research journal · 2022
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Raffaele MatteraDepartment of Economics and Statistics, University of Naples "Federico II", Italy; Department of Social and Economic Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. Electronic address: raffaele.mattera@unina.it.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The SARS-Cov-2 has spread differently over space and time worldwide. By monitoring the contagion's time evolution, the November 3 2020 the Italian government introduced differentiated regime of restrictions among its regions. This experiment demonstrated that public health policies can be effectively designed by means of clustering. This paper proposes a fuzzy clustering model where spatial and temporal dimensions of the disease spread are optimally weighted. The resulting model is applied with the aim of identifying groups of Italian regions with similar contagion spread. We found that two groups of regions sharing similar patterns of COVID-19 spread over both space and time exist. Appropriate public health policies can be designed on the basis of this evidence.

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COVID-19Cluster AnalysisHumansItalySARS-CoV-2COVID-19Fuzzy clusteringLISAPolicy designSpatial auto-correlationTime series

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PMID35691657
PMCPMC8949655

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