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http://dx.doi.org/10.5351/KJAS.2021.34.3.477

Intervention analysis for spread of COVID-19 in South Korea using SIR model  

Cho, Sumin (Department of Statistics, Sungkyunkwan University)
Kim, Jaejik (Department of Statistics, Sungkyunkwan University)
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The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics / v.34, no.3, 2021 , pp. 477-489 More about this Journal
Abstract
COVID-19 has spread seriously around the world in 2020 and it is still significantly affecting our whole daily life. Currently, the whole world is still undergoing the pandemic and South Korea is no exception to it. During the pandemic, South Korea had several events that prevented or accelerated its spread. To establish the prevention policies for infectious diseases, it is very important to evaluate the intervention effect of such events. The susceptible-infected-removed (SIR) model is often used to describe the dynamic behavior of the spread of infectious diseases through ordinary differential equations. However, the SIR model is a deterministic model without considering the uncertainty of observed data. To consider the uncertainty in the SIR model, the Bayesian approach can be employed, and this approach allows us to evaluate the intervention effects by time-varying functions of the infection rate in the SIR model. In this study, we describe the time trend of the spread of COVID-19 in South Korea and investigate the intervention effects for the events using the stochastic SIR model based on the Bayesian approach.
Keywords
COVID-19; intervention effect; ODE; SIR model;
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