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Topic:Change-point detection for COVID-19 time series via self-normalization
Date:01/06/2021
Time:9:00 am - 10:00 am
Venue:Zoom Meeting (please refer to seminar PDF)
Category:Latest Seminars and Events
Speaker:Prof. Xiaofeng SHAO
PDF:20210601_Xiaofeng-SHAO.pdf
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Abstract:

This talk consists of two parts. In the first part, I will review some basic idea of self-normalization (SN) for inference of time series in the context of confidence interval construction and change-point testing in mean. In the second part, I will present a piecewise linear quantile trend model to model infection trajectories of COVID-19 daily new cases. To estimate the change-points in the linear trend, we develop a new segmentation algorithm based on SN test statistics and local scanning. Data analysis for COVID-19 infection trends in many countries demonstrates the usefulness of our new model and segmentation method.