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K-means DTW Barycenter Averaging: a clustering analysis of COVID-19 cases and deaths on the Brazilian federal units

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  • do Espirito Santo, Jonatas Silva
  • da Conceição, Jackson Santos
  • da Costa, Lilia Carolina Carneiro
  • Fiaccone, Rosemeire Leovigildo
  • Barreto, Marcos
  • Ichihara, Maria Yury
  • Ara, Anderson

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A challenge faced while monitoring the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil is the identification of patterns of incidence and mortality, which can help prioritize interventions to avoid excessive disease transmission and associated deaths. This study aimed to identify epidemiological patterns concerning the evolution of the pandemic among Brazilian federal units (states). The proposed methodology is based on a combination of non-hierarchical k-means clustering and dynamic time warping (DTW), used to measure distances among time series, with the subsequent use of the DTW Barycenter Averaging (DBA) algorithm to calculate cluster centroids for time series of variable lengths. The dataset used is a time series consisting of the number of new cases and deaths per epidemiological week, and the number of cumulative cases and deaths until a given epidemiological week for each of the 27 Brazilian federal units. Six groups of Brazilian federation units were formed based on the similarities between the prevalence and incidence curves. The results demonstrate efficiency with respect to the characterization of both COVID-19 cases and rates of mortality.

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  • do Espirito Santo, Jonatas Silva & da Conceição, Jackson Santos & da Costa, Lilia Carolina Carneiro & Fiaccone, Rosemeire Leovigildo & Barreto, Marcos & Ichihara, Maria Yury & Ara, Anderson, 2024. "K-means DTW Barycenter Averaging: a clustering analysis of COVID-19 cases and deaths on the Brazilian federal units," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 122799, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    • Handle: RePEc:ehl:lserod:122799
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    clustering; Covid-19; DTW Barycenter Averaging; K-means; coronavirus;
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    • C1 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General

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