Association Learning Between the COVID-19 Infections and Global Demographic Characteristics Using the Class Rule Mining and Pattern Matching

09/27/2020
by   Wasiq Khan, et al.
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Over 26 million cases have been confirmed worldwide (by 20 August 2020) since the Coronavirus disease (COIVD_19) outbreak in December 2019. Research studies have been addressing diverse aspects in relation to COVID_19 including potential symptoms, predictive tools and specifically, correlations with various demographic attributes. However, very limited work is performed towards the modelling of complex associations between the combined demographic attributes and varying nature of the COVID_19 infections across the globe. Investigating the underlying disease associations with the combined demographical characteristics might help in comprehensive analysis this devastating disease as well as contribute to its effective management. In this study, we present an intelligent model to investigate the multi-dimensional associations between the potentially relevant demographic attributes and the COVID_19 severity levels across the globe. We gather multiple demographic attributes and COVID_19 infection data (by 20 August 2020) from various reliable sources, which is then fed-into pattern matching algorithms that include self-organizing maps, class association rules and statistical approaches, to identify the significant associations within the processed dataset. Statistical results and the experts report indicate strong associations between the COVID_19 severity levels and measures of certain demographic attributes such as female smokers, when combined together with other attributes. These results strongly suggest that the mechanism underlying COVID_19 infection severity is associated to distribution of the certain demographic attributes within different regions of the world. The outcomes will aid the understanding of the dynamics of disease spread and its progression that might in turn help the policy makers and the society, in better understanding and management of the disease.

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