Hot-spots detection in count data by Poisson assisted smooth sparse tensor decomposition

Y Zhao, X Huo, Y Mei - Journal of Applied Statistics, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Count data occur widely in many bio-surveillance and healthcare applications, eg the
numbers of new patients of different types of infectious diseases from different …

Rapid detection of hot-spot by tensor decomposition on space and circular time with application to weekly gonorrhea data

Y Zhao, H Yan, SE Holte, RP Kerani, Y Mei - The XIIIth International …, 2020 - par.nsf.gov
In many bio-surveillance and healthcare applications, data sources are measured from
many spatial locations repeatedly over time, say, daily/weekly/monthly. In these applications …

Rapid detection of hot-spot by tensor decomposition with application to weekly gonorrhea data

Y Zhao, H Yan, SE Holte, RP Kerani, Y Mei - International Workshop on …, 2019 - Springer
In many bio-surveillance and healthcare applications, data sources are measured from
many spatial locations repeatedly over time, say, daily/weekly/monthly. In these applications …

Rapid detection of hot-spots via tensor decomposition with applications to crime rate data

Y Zhao, H Yan, S Holte, Y Mei - Journal of Applied Statistics, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
In many real-world applications of monitoring multivariate spatio-temporal data that are non-
stationary over time, one is often interested in detecting hot-spots with spatial sparsity and …

Cluster-based analysis of infectious disease occurrences using tensor decomposition: a case study of South Korea

S Jung, J Moon, E Hwang - … journal of environmental research and public …, 2020 - mdpi.com
For a long time, various epidemics, such as lower respiratory infections and diarrheal
diseases, have caused serious social losses and costs. Various methods for analyzing …

New progress in hot-spots detection, partial-differential-equation-based model identification and statistical computation

Y Zhao - 2021 - repository.gatech.edu
This thesis discusses the new progress in (1) hot-spots detection in spatial-temporal data,(2)
partial-differential-equation-based (PDE-based) model identification, and (3) optimization in …

Optimal sparse singular value decomposition for high-dimensional high-order data

A Zhang, R Han - Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
In this article, we consider the sparse tensor singular value decomposition, which aims for
dimension reduction on high-dimensional high-order data with certain sparsity structure. A …

Tensor decomposition for infectious disease incidence data

H Korevaar, CJ Metcalf… - Methods in ecology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Many demographic and ecological processes generate seasonal and other periodicities.
Seasonality in infectious disease transmission can result from climatic forces such as …

Modeling the positive testing rate of COVID-19 in South Africa using a semi-parametric smoother for binomial data

OE Owokotomo, S Manda, J Cleasen… - Frontiers in Public …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Identification and isolation of COVID-19 infected persons plays a significant role in the
control of COVID-19 pandemic. A country's COVID-19 positive testing rate is useful in …

Tensor decomposition with generalized lasso penalties

OH Madrid-Padilla, J Scott - Journal of Computational and …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
We present an approach for penalized tensor decomposition (PTD) that estimates smoothly
varying latent factors in multiway data. This generalizes existing work on sparse tensor …