Jishan Ahmed, ∙Md. Hasnat Jaman, ∙Goutam Saha, Pratyya Ghosh. Effect of environmental and socio-economic factors on the spreading of COVID-19 at 70 cities/provinces. 2021, Volume 7, Issue 5e06979. 10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e06979
Jishan Ahmed, ∙Md. Hasnat Jaman, ∙Goutam Saha, Pratyya Ghosh. Effect of environmental and socio-economic factors on the spreading of COVID-19 at 70 cities/provinces. 2021, Volume 7, Issue 5e06979. 10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e06979
Jishan Ahmed, ∙Md. Hasnat Jaman, ∙Goutam Saha, Pratyya Ghosh. Effect of environmental and socio-economic factors on the spreading of COVID-19 at 70 cities/provinces. 2021, Volume 7, Issue 5e06979. 10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e06979
Jishan Ahmed, ∙Md. Hasnat Jaman, ∙Goutam Saha, Pratyya Ghosh. Effect of environmental and socio-economic factors on the spreading of COVID-19 at 70 cities/provinces. 2021, Volume 7, Issue 5e06979. 10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e06979
Abstract
The main goal of this article is to demonstrate the impact of environmental data on the spreading of Covid-19. In this research, data has been collected from 70 cities/provinces that are affected by Covid-19. Here, environmental data refers to temperatures, humidity and population density in each of these cities/provinces. This data has been analyzed using statistical models such as Poisson, Quasi-Poisson and negative Binomial. It is found that a negative Binomial regression model is the best fit for our data. Our results reveal that average high temperature is the vital factor to slow down the spread of Covid-19. In addition, higher population density found to be an important factor for the quick spreading of Covid-19 where it is quite impossible to maintain the social distance and the virus can spread easily.
Keywords
temperatures; humidity; population density; environment; Covid-19; generalized linear model
Subject
Computer Science and Mathematics, Probability and Statistics
Copyright:
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