Abolfazl Payandeh, Habibollah Esmaily, Masoud Salehi, Seyed Mahdi Amir Jahanshahi, Zahra Arab Borzu, Ahmad Bolouri
{"title":"ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TECHNIQUES IN PREDICTION OF COVID-19 MORTALITY AND ITS RELATED FACTORS: A MULTI-CENTER STUDY","authors":"Abolfazl Payandeh, Habibollah Esmaily, Masoud Salehi, Seyed Mahdi Amir Jahanshahi, Zahra Arab Borzu, Ahmad Bolouri","doi":"10.17654/0972361723064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17654/0972361723064","url":null,"abstract":"Predictive artificial intelligence (AI) models for the assessment of factors and trends related to disease prevalence, prognosis, and the risk prediction of mortality in the early phases, seem to be effective techniques. Machine learning (ML) algorithms as a branch of AI methods have had a considerable role in controlling and management of COVID-19 and previous pandemics. The present study estimates the mortality risk among COVID-19 patients based on ML algorithms, prediction of outcomes in new cases, and also determines the top significant features related to morality in the patients. In this retrospective research, 7115 patients with confirmed COVID-19 disease were included in the study. The information was collected from 35 different hospitals across Khorasan-Razavi province, Northeast of Iran during 20 February 2020 - 21 June 2021. We employed random forests (RF), decision tree (DT), artificial neural networks (ANN), support vector machines (SVM), logistic regression (LR), and boosted trees (BT) ML algorithms. Our findings indicated that the RF model had better performance in different criteria. The RF algorithm had area under curve (AUC) of 88%, accuracy of 96%, precision of 96%, sensitivity of 99%, and specificity of 80%. Intubation, SpO2, age, time from symptoms, loss of consciousness, reception season, and diabetes were the seven ordered and significant predictors of the risk of COVID-19 patients’ death. RF model can aid in clinical decision-making and limited resource allocation. This model needs to be externally validated in larger populations, more features, and multicenter settings. Received: August 4, 2023Accepted: September 13, 2023","PeriodicalId":43137,"journal":{"name":"Advances and Applications in Statistics","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135635337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ESTIMATING BASIC REPRODUCTION NUMBER OF COVID-19 WITH PARAMETERS OF A STOCHASTIC CHAIN-BINOMIAL MODEL IN THREE REGIONS OF PHILIPPINES","authors":"Freddy A. Julkanain II, Azman A. Nads","doi":"10.17654/0972361723063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17654/0972361723063","url":null,"abstract":"This epidemiological study made use of the stochastic chain-binomial model to estimate the basic reproduction number with a numerical computation approach to the maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) method in order to estimate the model parameters that best fits the data on the weekly number of infections on three regions of the Philippines, namely, Region III - Central Luzon (March 4, 2020:13 weeks), Region XII - SOCCSKSARGEN (July 1, 2020:8 weeks), and Cordillera Autonomous Region (CAR) (June 09, 2020:5 weeks). This study shows that the numerical computation of MLE estimate parameters of the stochastic chain-binomial model and their corresponding basic reproduction numbers are as follows: Region III $left(S_0=1201.338, beta=1.5438, R_0=2344.326right)$; Region XII $left(S_0=1060.73, quad beta=1.65138, quad R_0=2214.297right) ; quad$ and $mathrm{CAR}$ $left(S_0=572.2389, quad beta=1.5876, R_0=1148.178right)$. Received: September 8, 2023Accepted: October 18, 2023","PeriodicalId":43137,"journal":{"name":"Advances and Applications in Statistics","volume":"2 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135934407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ON THE BAYESIAN ZERO-INFLATED SPATIO-TEMPORAL MODELLING OF DENGUE HEMORRHAGIC FEVER","authors":"Daniel R. Sanson, Daisy Lou Lim-Polestico","doi":"10.17654/0972361723062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17654/0972361723062","url":null,"abstract":"This study focuses on improving the convergence rates of parameter estimates for two Bayesian spatio-temporal models, namely the Bayesian zero-inflated Poisson spatio-temporal (BZIP S-T) distribution and the Bayesian zero-inflated negative binomial spatio-temporal (BZINB S-T) distribution, employed for modeling dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) data in the Caraga region, Philippines. The predictive performance of these models, incorporating meteorological factors such as rainfall and population density, is enhanced through the implementation of an overrelaxation algorithm designed to expedite convergence. Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) techniques, specifically utilizing the full conditional distribution, are utilized for parameter estimation. Our findings reveal that the application of the overrelaxation algorithm yields significant improvements in the convergence rates of parameter estimates, with acceleration percentages of up to 67% and 40% observed for the BZIP S-T and BZINB S-T models, respectively. Notably, both the models identify rainfall and population density as statistically significant predictors for DHF case predictions in the Caraga region, Philippines. While the BZINB S-T model exhibits the smallest deviance, both the models prove to be valuable tools for predicting DHF cases in the region, contributing to the advancement of epidemiological research and public health planning. Received: April 4, 2023Revised: September 13, 2023Accepted: September 20, 2023","PeriodicalId":43137,"journal":{"name":"Advances and Applications in Statistics","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135993092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PREDICTING FUTURE DATA FROM GAMMA-MIXTURE AND BETA-MIXTURE DISTRIBUTIONS AND APPLICATION TO THE RECOVERY RATE OF COVID-19","authors":"O. M. Khaled, K. S. Khalil, M. H. Harpy","doi":"10.17654/0972361723061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17654/0972361723061","url":null,"abstract":"This paper addresses the problem of predicting future order statistics arising from mixture distributions. This study generalizes Barakat et al.’s [1] work that focused only on the data from a mixture of exponential distributions to wide models including the mixture-gamma and beta-mixture distributions. For these two lifetime models, we construct prediction intervals and point predictions for future observations. Two cases are considered, in the first case, we assume a fixed sample size, while in the second case, the sample size is assumed to be a positive integer-valued random variable independent of the observations. A simulation study is carried out for corroborating the finding and illustrative purposes. Finally, a practical application of the proposed method is applied to the recovery rate of COVID-19 data sets. Received: August 3, 2023Accepted: September 18, 2023","PeriodicalId":43137,"journal":{"name":"Advances and Applications in Statistics","volume":"249 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135804202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF DEMOTIVATING FACTORS INFLUENCING THE CONSISTENCY OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS IN LEARNING ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN KRG OF IRAQ","authors":"Shohidahon Nurmatova, Amani Baseem","doi":"10.17654/0972361723059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17654/0972361723059","url":null,"abstract":"The paper explores demotivating factors that influence the consistency of learning the English language of undergraduate students. A lot of research has been done to examine the demotivation of students; however, very little research has focused on exploring the demotivating components affecting the consistency of learning a language in the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq. This work comprises students from diverse backgrounds, ages, and faculties at Tishk International University in Erbil, Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq. A quantitative approach was chosen as a means of research design the results of which were analyzed with SPSS (version 27). The findings of the study revealed three major and three minor factors that affect the learners’ consistency in English language development. This research provides significant insights and understanding of the obstacles the students face during their English language learning journey. Received: August 16, 2023Revised: September 25, 2023Accepted: October 3, 2023","PeriodicalId":43137,"journal":{"name":"Advances and Applications in Statistics","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135852982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
O. Oyewole, Adedayo F. Adedotun, J. A. Adeyiga, A. A. Oyewole, Toluwalase J. Akingbade, Oluwatosin O. Onayemi, Onuche G. Odekina
{"title":"CALCULATING THE SAMPLE SIZE FOR ORDINARY LEAST SQUARE ESTIMATION IN PRESENCE OF MULTICOLLINEARITY","authors":"O. Oyewole, Adedayo F. Adedotun, J. A. Adeyiga, A. A. Oyewole, Toluwalase J. Akingbade, Oluwatosin O. Onayemi, Onuche G. Odekina","doi":"10.17654/0972361723060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17654/0972361723060","url":null,"abstract":"The relationship between a variable (the response variable) and the scores of several other variables (the independent variables) may be described using multiple linear regression analysis. This study compares the L2 (ridge) shrinkage method and least squares shrinkage method when multicollinearity is present in a dataset across various sample sizes. For different sample sizes $(n = 25, n = 50, n = 200,$ and $n = 1000)$, this process was repeated. The relationship between larger sample sizes and covariance was not linear in the simulated data. The results demonstrated that L2 regression is best and generates parsimonious models in the presence of multicollinearity; the higher the degree of multicollinearity, the smaller the shrinkage parameter. The L2 regularization technique also helps to reduce standard errors of regression coefficients and the prediction error of the generated model. This implies that for every change in the dataset values, there is always an optimal value of the shrinkage parameter that minimizes multicollinearity and produces more stable and reliable regression models. In moderation studies where we would like to keep all of the predictor variables, L2 regularization would be the best alternative. Increasing sample size gives stable results after estimation as it helps to reduce the standard errors of the regression coefficients of the predictor variables. It is also the best method to use for greatly inflated standard errors of OLS regression coefficients. OLS works best for independent samples, but correlated covariates should be handled with modern regression methods (L2). Received: February 24, 2023Revised: May 10, 2023 Accepted: June 7, 2023","PeriodicalId":43137,"journal":{"name":"Advances and Applications in Statistics","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135858506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fabrice Ouoba, Larba Hubert Balima, Hay Yoba Talkibing, Diakarya Barro
{"title":"GEOSPATIAL MODELLING OF FOREST CARBON STOCKS IN BURKINA FASO, WEST AFRICA","authors":"Fabrice Ouoba, Larba Hubert Balima, Hay Yoba Talkibing, Diakarya Barro","doi":"10.17654/0972361723058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17654/0972361723058","url":null,"abstract":"Protected areas in West Africa play a crucial role in climate change mitigation as the major carbon pools. Yet, the spatial distribution of forest carbon stocks is poorly documented, but required for forest management and carbon monitoring. Assessing the spatial distribution of aboveground biomass and carbon stocks is important for the monitoring of carbon sinks and sources within the national adaptation framework. This paper analyzes the spatial distribution of tree aboveground carbon stocks in two forests using geostatistical tools. We derived tree aboveground biomass and carbon stocks from two forests using field data of 2844 trees from 174 inventory plots. The distribution of forest carbon stocks was analyzed using geospatial modelling methods. We fitted different variogram models to carbon data and selected the best model for each forest. The best fitted model was then used to predict the spatial distribution of forest carbon stock using geostatistical analysis. The findings showed that the exponential variogram model better explains the spatial dependence of carbon stock in Bontioli forest, whereas the power variogram model better explains the spatial dependence of stock in Nazinga game ranch. The values of carbon density ranged between 10-45 Mg/ha in Nazinga to 18-35 Mg/ha in Bontioli reserve. This study provides a baseline for the geospatial modelling of forest carbon in West African ecosystems. Such studies should be extended to other forests for a better management of forest carbon in the region. Received: May 28, 2023Accepted: July 1, 2023","PeriodicalId":43137,"journal":{"name":"Advances and Applications in Statistics","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135817822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A NEW WEIGHTED AILAMUJIA DISTRIBUTION WITH ITS PROPERTIES","authors":"Bader Alruwaili","doi":"10.17654/0972361723057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17654/0972361723057","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43137,"journal":{"name":"Advances and Applications in Statistics","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136308895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ON COMPOUND POISSON RISK MODEL WITH PARTIAL PREMIUM PAYMENT STRATEGY TO SHAREHOLDERS AND DEPENDENCE BETWEEN CLAIM AMOUNTS AND INTER-CLAIM TIMES THROUGH THE SPEARMAN COPULA","authors":"Kiswendsida Mahamoudou OUEDRAOGO, Francois Xavier OUEDRAOGO, Delwendé Abdoul-Kabir KAFANDO, Pierre Clovis NITIEMA","doi":"10.17654/0972361723056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17654/0972361723056","url":null,"abstract":"This article is an extension of the compound Poisson risk model with a partial dividend payment strategy to shareholders and a dependence between claim amounts and inter-claim times through the Spearman copula. We find the integro-differential equation of the Gerber-Shiu function associated with this risk model. Received: August 2, 2023Revised: August 15, 2023Accepted: September 8, 2023","PeriodicalId":43137,"journal":{"name":"Advances and Applications in Statistics","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135015254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. Okagbue, A. Opanuga, Oluwatosin M. Fatimehin, O. O. Agboola, T. J. Akingbade
{"title":"DETERMINING THE PROBABILITIES OF THE OUTCOMES OF LOTTO GAME USING HYPERGEOMETRIC DISTRIBUTION","authors":"H. Okagbue, A. Opanuga, Oluwatosin M. Fatimehin, O. O. Agboola, T. J. Akingbade","doi":"10.17654/0972361723054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17654/0972361723054","url":null,"abstract":"The probability density function (PDF) of the hypergeometric is used to model the probability of outcomes of lotto game given some selected predetermined scenarios (K) from (n = 5) samples at the instances of six sample scenarios x = 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. This is exactly mimicking the Nigerian Premier Lotto game where interested players are expected to choose five random numbers from 1 to 90. That ‘A’ win implies that at least three of the randomly chosen 5 numbers are drawn from the national lotto draw often televised to the players. In this paper, different predetermined scenarios are defined and the probability is computed using the probability density function of the hypergeometric distribution. The data are results from 31625 games played on premier lotto in a span of 3 years. The data are for morning, afternoon, night, in Enugu center, regional and national premier lotto results during the period. The chi-square test of goodness of fit shows that the premier lotto is random, fair, and validates the results of the adoption of the PDF of hypergeometric distribution. Players of lotto games are advised to be aware of the slim chances of winning and play reasonably and sensibly.","PeriodicalId":43137,"journal":{"name":"Advances and Applications in Statistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47155779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}