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SCIENCE ADVANCES
Volume 8, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abg5234
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- Leverhulme Trust [278]
- University of Catania project Piano della Ricerca 2020/2022, Linea d'intervento 2, MOSCOVID
- Italian Ministry of Instruction, University and Research (MIUR) [2017KKJP4X]
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This study introduces a framework to quantify the impact of data uncertainty on the determination of model parameters and the evolution of unmeasured variables, and discusses how the lack of identifiability in a COVID-19 model may prevent reliable predictions of epidemic dynamics.
Compartmental models are widely adopted to describe and predict the spreading of infectious diseases. The unknown parameters of these models need to be estimated from the data. Furthermore, when some of the model variables are not empirically accessible, as in the case of asymptomatic carriers of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), they have to be obtained as an outcome of the model. Here, we introduce a framework to quantify how the uncertainty in the data affects the determination of the parameters and the evolution of the unmeasured variables of a given model. We illustrate how the method is able to characterize different regimes of identifiability, even in models with few compartments. Last, we discuss how the lack of identifiability in a realistic model for COVID-19 may prevent reliable predictions of the epidemic dynamics.
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