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ArticleEpidemiology and infection2023

Prediction of the COVID-19 transmission: a case study of Pakistan.

Qurat Ul An Sabir, Ambreen Shafqat, Muhammad Aslam

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Qurat Ul An SabirDepartment of Mathematics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.
Ambreen ShafqatDepartment of Urology, Roswell Park Cancer Research Institute, Buffalo, NY, USA.
Muhammad AslamDepartment of Statistics, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0003-0644-1950

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Abstract

The world has suffered a lot from COVID-19 and is still on the verge of a new outbreak. The infected regions of coronavirus have been classified into four categories: SIRD model, (1) suspected, (2) infected, (3) recovered, and (4) deaths, where the COVID-19 transmission is evaluated using a stochastic model. A study in Pakistan modeled COVID-19 data using stochastic models like PRM and NBR. The findings were evaluated based on these models, as the country faces its third wave of the virus. Our study predicts COVID-19 casualties in Pakistan using a count data model. We've used a Poisson process, SIRD-type framework, and a stochastic model to find the solution. We took data from NCOC (National Command and Operation Center) website to choose the best prediction model based on all provinces of Pakistan, On the values of log L and AIC criteria. The best model among PRM and NBR is NBR because when over-dispersion happens; NBR is the best model for modelling the total suspected, infected, and recovered COVID-19 occurrences in Pakistan as it has the maximum log L and smallest AIC of the other count regression model. It was also observed that the active and critical cases positively and significantly affect COVID-19-related deaths in Pakistan using the NBR model.

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COVID-19Disease OutbreaksHumansPakistanSARS-CoV-2Akaike information criteriaCOVID-19National Command and Operation Centernegative binomial regression modelPoisson regression modelSIRD Model

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PMCPMC10244643

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