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Using country-level variables to classify countries according to the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases: An unsupervised machine learning approach

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dc.contributor.author Carrillo Larco, Rodrigo Martín
dc.contributor.author Castillo-Cara, M.
dc.date.accessioned 2020-12-14T16:06:15Z
dc.date.available 2020-12-14T16:06:15Z
dc.date.issued 2020
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/8685
dc.description.abstract Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has attracted the attention of researchers and clinicians whom have provided evidence about risk factors and clinical outcomes. Research on the COVID-19 pandemic benefiting from open-access data and machine learning algorithms is still scarce yet can produce relevant and pragmatic information. With country-level pre-COVID-19-pandemic variables, we aimed to cluster countries in groups with shared profiles of the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: Unsupervised machine learning algorithms (k-means) were used to define data-driven clusters of countries; the algorithm was informed by disease prevalence estimates, metrics of air pollution, socio-economic status and health system coverage. Using the one-way ANOVA test, we compared the clusters in terms of number of confirmed COVID-19 cases, number of deaths, case fatality rate and order in which the country reported the first case. Results: The model to define the clusters was developed with 155 countries. The model with three principal component analysis parameters and five or six clusters showed the best ability to group countries in relevant sets. There was strong evidence that the model with five or six clusters could stratify countries according to the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases (p<0.001). However, the model could not stratify countries in terms of number of deaths or case fatality rate. Conclusions: A simple data-driven approach using available global information before the COVID-19 pandemic, seemed able to classify countries in terms of the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases. The model was not able to stratify countries based on COVID-19 mortality data. © 2020 Carrillo-Larco RM and Castillo-Cara M. en_US
dc.language.iso eng
dc.publisher F1000 Research
dc.relation.ispartofseries Wellcome Open Research
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es
dc.subject COVID-19 en_US
dc.subject pandemic en_US
dc.subject clustering en_US
dc.subject k-mean en_US
dc.subject unsupervised algorithms en_US
dc.title Using country-level variables to classify countries according to the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases: An unsupervised machine learning approach en_US
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15819.3
dc.subject.ocde https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#1.06.03
dc.subject.ocde https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#3.00.00
dc.relation.issn 2398-502X


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