Predict new cases of the Coronavirus 19; in Michigan, U.S.A. or other countries using Crow-AMSAA Method (Preprint)

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Abstract

Statistical predictions are useful to predict events based on statistical models. The data is useful to determine outcomes based on inputs and calculations. The Crow-AMSAA method will be explored to predict new cases of Coronavirus 19 (COVID19). This method is currently used within engineering reliability design to predict failures and evaluate the reliability growth. The author intents to use this model to predict the COVID19 cases by using daily reported data from Michigan, New York City, U.S.A and other countries. The piece wise Crow-AMSAA (CA) model fits the data very well for the infected cases and deaths at different phases during the start of the COVID19 outbreak. The slope β of the Crow-AMSAA line indicates the speed of the transmission or death rate. The traditional epidemiological model is based on the exponential distribution, but the Crow-AMSAA is the Non Homogeneous Poisson Process (NHPP) which can be used to modeling the complex problem like COVID19, especially when the various mitigation strategies such as social distance, isolation and locking down were implemented by the government at different places.

OBJECTIVE

This paper is to use piece wise Crow-AMSAA method to fit the COVID19 confirmed cases in Michigan, New York City, U.S.A and other countries.

METHODS

piece wise Crow-AMSAA method to fit the COVID19 confirmed cases

RESULTS

From the Crow-AMSAA analysis above, at the beginning of the COVID 19, the infectious cases did not follow the Crow-AMSAA prediction line, but during the outbreak start, the confirmed cases does follow the CA line, the slope β value indicates the pace of the transmission rate or death rate in each case. The piece wise Crow-AMSAA describes the different phases of spreading. This indicates the speed of the transmission rate could change according to the government interference, social distance order or other factors. Comparing the piece wise CA β slopes (β: 1.683-- 0.834--0.092) in China and in U.S.A (β:5.138--10.48--5.259), the speed of infectious rate in U.S.A is much higher than the infectious rate in China. From the piece wise CA plots and summary table 1 of the CA slope βs, the COVID19 spreading has the different behavior at different places and countries where the government implemented the different policy to slow down the spreading.

CONCLUSIONS

From the analysis of data and conclusions from confirmed cases and deaths of COVID 19 in Michigan, New York city, U.S.A, China and other countries, the piece wise Crow-AMSAA method can be used to modeling the spreading of COVID19.

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    Table 1: Rigor

    Institutional Review Board Statementnot detected.
    Randomizationnot detected.
    Blindingnot detected.
    Power Analysisnot detected.
    Sex as a biological variablenot detected.

    Table 2: Resources

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    Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).


    Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
    The limitation of this piece wise Crow-AMSAA method is that the manual separation of the data has to be applied to find out the different infection phase at different time period. The good fitting of the data is depending on the good data separation. Future work: More studies should be done in future for COVID19 for the distribution of demographical, zone and climate conditions by using the piece wise CA models. Also the effectiveness of the government policy which preventing the spreading of this disease need be studied more to see how that affects the CA slope β.

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    Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.


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