Developed model to study the spread of COVID-19 by branching process. However, it requires an estimate of the number of asymptomatic patients. After an extensive literature survey, no reliable method of estimating the number of asymptomatic patients from the reported cases, were obtained. The usual trend is to apply grid search to get the best fitting parameters, and estimate the asymptomatic population accordingly. Further, the model considers the number of asymptomatic population as a part of the data, obtaining the same by maximising the model would lead to double usage of data, which is statistically prohibitive. Therefore, it is estimated that the number of asymptomatic patients from an independent compartmental model using metadata only.
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)
Assistant Professor
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