Sunday, Aug 4: 4:35 PM - 4:50 PM
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Contributed Papers
Oregon Convention Center
There has been extensive research conducted on the transmission dynamics of COVID-19 disease. The SARS-CoV-2 virus primarily spreads through the respiratory tract. It is very common for the virus to spread rapidly during the incubation period. Further, asymptomatic carriers contribute to this rapid transmission. As an early detection method, wastewater surveillance can be used to detect viruses before they spread far and wide. Our study focused on collecting wastewater samples from treatment plants across various cities in North Dakota. Utilizing viral RNA copies, we compared the model predictions of K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) regression, Quantile Regression (QR), and Long-Short-Term-Memory (LSTM) network models. To gauge its efficacy, we compared our models' predictions with those of the fundamental Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) model.
SARS-CoV-2
K-Nearest Neighbor
Quantile Regression
Long-Short-Term-Memory
SIR model
Main Sponsor
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology