Extreme value modelling of SARS-CoV-2 community transmission using discrete generalized Pareto distributions

被引:2
作者
Daouia, Abdelaati [1 ]
Stupfler, Gilles [2 ]
Usseglio-Carleve, Antoine [3 ]
机构
[1] Univ Toulouse Capitole, Toulouse Sch Econ, Toulouse, France
[2] Univ Angers, CNRS, LAREMA, SFR MATHSTIC, F-49000 Angers, France
[3] Avignon Univ, Lab Math Avignon UPR 2151, F-84000 Avignon, France
来源
ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE | 2023年 / 10卷 / 03期
关键词
COVID-19; superspreading; cluster size; secondary cases; extreme value theory; discrete extremes;
D O I
10.1098/rsos.220977
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
Superspreading has been suggested to be a major driver of overall transmission in the case of SARS-CoV-2. It is, therefore, important to statistically investigate the tail features of superspreading events (SSEs) to better understand virus propagation and control. Our extreme value analysis of different sources of secondary case data indicates that case numbers of SSEs associated with SARS-CoV-2 may be fat-tailed, although substantially less so than predicted recently in the literature, but also less important relative to SSEs associated with SARS-CoV. The results caution against pooling data from both coronaviruses. This could provide policy- and decision-makers with a more reliable assessment of the tail exposure to SARS-CoV-2 contamination. Going further, we consider the broader problem of large community transmission. We study the tail behaviour of SARS-CoV-2 cluster cases documented both in official reports and in the media. Our results suggest that the observed cluster sizes have been fat-tailed in the vast majority of surveyed countries. We also give estimates and confidence intervals of the extreme potential risk for those countries. A key component of our methodology is up-to-date discrete generalized Pareto models which allow for maximum likelihood-based inference of data with a high degree of discreteness.
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