Tracking Epidemics With Google Flu Trends Data and a State-Space SEIR Model
结合 Google 流感趋势数据与状态空间 SEIR 模型追踪疫情
In this article, we use Google Flu Trends data together with a sequential surveillance model based on state-space methodology to track the evolution of an epidemic process over time. We embed a classical mathematical epidemiology model [a susceptible-exposed-infected-recovered (SEIR) model] within the state-space framework, thereby extending the SEIR dynamics to allow changes through time. The implementation of this model is based on a particle filtering algorithm, which…