Title
Efficient Function Integration and a Case Study with Gompertz Functions for Covid-19 Waves
Date Issued
01 January 2022
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Science and Information Organization
Abstract
Numerical algorithms are widely used in different applications, therefore, the execution time of the functions involved in numerical algorithms is important, and, in some cases, decisive, for example, in machine learning algorithms. Given a finite set of independent functions A(x), B(x), …, Z(x) with domains defined by disjoint, consecutive, and not necessarily adjacent intervals, the main goal is to integrate into a single function F(x) = k1×A(x) + k2×B(x) + … + kn×Z(x), where each activation coefficient k, is one if x is in the interval of the respective domain and zero otherwise. The novelty of this work is the presentation and formal demonstration of two general forms of integration of functions in a single function: The first is the mathematical version and the second is the computational version (with the AND function at the bit level), which is characterized by its efficiency. The result is applied in a case study (Peru), where two regression functions were obtained that integrate all the waves of Covid-19, that is, the epidemic curve of the variable global number of deaths/infected per day, the adjustment provided a highly statistically significant measure of correlation, a Pearson's product-moment correlation of 0.96 and 0.98 respectively. Finally, the size of the epidemic was projected for the next 30 days
Start page
545
End page
551
Volume
13
Issue
8
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería de sistemas y comunicaciones
Ciencias de la computación
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85137159286
Source
International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications
ISSN of the container
2158107X
Sponsor(s)
The authors thank Johns Hopkins University for freely organizing and providing the Covid-19 data
Sources of information:
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