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On automatic calibration of the SIRD epidemiological model for COVID-19 data in Poland

Methodology 2022-04-27 v1 Machine Learning

Abstract

We propose a novel methodology for estimating the epidemiological parameters of a modified SIRD model (acronym of Susceptible, Infected, Recovered and Deceased individuals) and perform a short-term forecast of SARS-CoV-2 virus spread. We mainly focus on forecasting number of deceased. The procedure was tested on reported data for Poland. For some short-time intervals we performed numerical test investigating stability of parameter estimates in the proposed approach. Numerical experiments confirm the effectiveness of short-term forecasts (up to 2 weeks) and stability of the method. To improve their performance (i.e. computation time) GPU architecture was used in computations.

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@article{arxiv.2204.12346,
  title  = {On automatic calibration of the SIRD epidemiological model for COVID-19 data in Poland},
  author = {Piotr Błaszczyk and Konrad Klimczak and Adam Mahdi and Piotr Oprocha and Paweł Potorski and Paweł Przybyłowicz and Michał Sobieraj},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.12346},
  year   = {2022}
}

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17 pages, 7 figures