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Applying particle filtering in both aggregated and age-structured population compartmental models of pre-vaccination measles

Xiaoyan Li1*, Alexander Doroshenko2, Nathaniel D. Osgood1

1 Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada 2 Department of Medicine, Division of Preventive Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

* [email protected]

Abstract

Measles is a highly transmissible disease and is one of the leading causes of death among young children under 5 globally. While the use of ongoing surveillance data and – recently – dynamic models offer insight on measles dynamics, both suffer notable shortcomings when applied to measles outbreak prediction. In this paper, we apply the Sequential Monte Carlo approach of particle filtering, incorporating reported measles incidence for Saskatchewan during the pre-vaccination era, using an adaptation of a previously contributed measles compartmental model. To secure further insight, we also perform particle filtering on an age structured adaptation of the model in which the population is divided into two interacting age groups – children and adults. The results indicate that, when used with a suitable dynamic model, particle filtering can offer high predictive capacity for measles dynamics and outbreak occurrence in a low vaccination context. We have investigated five particle filtering models in this project. Based on the most competitive model as evaluated by predictive accuracy, we have performed prediction and outbreak classification analysis. The prediction results demonstrated that this model could predict the measles transmission patterns and classify whether there will be an outbreak or not in the next month (Area under the ROC Curve of 0.89). We conclude that anticipating the outbreak dynamics of measles in low vaccination regions by applying particle filtering with simple measles transmission models, and incorporating time series of reported case counts, is a valuable technique to assist public health authorities in estimating risk and magnitude of measles outbreaks. Such approach offer particularly strong value proposition for other pathogens with little-known dynamics, critical latent drivers, and in the context of the growing number of high-velocity electronic data sources. Strong additional benefits are also likely to be realized from extending the application of this technique to highly vaccinated populations.

Author summary

Measles is a highly infectious disease and is one of the leading causes of death among young children globally. In 2016, close to 90,000 people died from measles. Measles can cause outbreaks particularly in people who did not receive protective vaccine. Understanding how measles outbreaks unfold can help public health agencies to design

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intervention strategies to prevent and control this potentially deadly infection. Although traditional methods – including the use of ongoing monitoring of infectious diseases trends by public health agencies and simulation of such trends using scientific technique of mathematical modeling – offer insight on measles dynamics, both have shortcomings when applied to our ability to predict measles outbreaks. We seek to enhance the accuracy with which we can understand the current measles disease burden as well as number of individuals who may develop measles because of lack of protection and predict future measles trends. We do this by applying a machine learning technique that combines the best features of insights from ongoing observations and mathematical models while minimizing important weaknesses of each. Our results indicate that, coupled with a suitable mathematical model, this technique can predict future measles trends and measles outbreaks in areas with low vaccination coverage.

Introduction 1

Measles is a highly contagious viral disease. It remains one of the leading causes of death 2

among young children globally, and has imposed a significant morbidity and mortality 3

burden where vaccination coverage is low [1]. About 30% of all cases of measles have 4

one or more complications including diarrhea, otitis media, pneumonia or encephalitis. 5

Measles mortality was estimated to be 0.2% in the United States between 1985 and 6

1992 [2]. Prior to widespread vaccination, measles caused an estimated 2.6 million 7

deaths each year [1]. In 2016, approximately 89,780 people died from measles – mostly 8

children under the age of 5 [1]. The Americas has become the first region in the world 9

to have eliminated measles [3], however importation of cases from other regions leads to 10

outbreaks in unimmunized and under-immunized populations. Understanding measles 11

epidemic patterns can aid in forecasting and help public health agencies to design 12

intervention strategies to prevent and control it, such as setting outbreak response 13

measures, setting vaccination targets, and allocating financial and human resources, etc. 14

Traditionally, many public health agencies seek to anticipate future transmission of 15

infectious diseases based upon time series of reported incident case counts, derived from 16

public health surveillance. In recent years, simulation models [4,5] have increasingly 17

been used to predict the spread of measles within the population, and the potential 18

impact of interventions on that spread. Although both these methods have their 19

benefits, and have played an important role in estimating and predicting measles 20

epidemic pattern, each suffers from notable limitations. 21

In many jurisdictions worldwide, measles is a notifiable illness under respective 22

Public Health Acts, and surveillance reports are collected and examined on a regular 23

basis. These data – often summarized as epi-curves – have offered great value for public 24

health agencies seeking to understand trends in measles incidence and anticipate future 25

evolution. For example, identifying and confirming suspected measles cases through 26

surveillance allows early detection of outbreaks, and supports comparing recent activity 27

to reference periods. However, the reported time series data are often quite noisy, 28

particularly for contexts marked by smaller population or low incidence or diagnosis 29

rates. Such reports are also delayed, and may be incomplete, since families of some of 30

those infected elect not to seek care. When used unassisted, time series lack the 31

capacity to provide quantitatively rigorous insight into the future evolution of the 32

observed patterns -– evolution that will be shaped by a complex combination of local 33

circumstances, including birth rates, contact patterns, and the size of latent factors such 34

as the local pool of susceptibles as affected by vaccination rates, immunity acquired 35

after contracting disease and recent history of outbreaks. Perhaps most importantly 36

when considered as a tool for planning, use of time series alone cannot itself be used to 37

investigate counterfactuals, such as how an outbreak response immunization campaign, 38

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enhanced contact tracing, advisories, exclusions from schools, day care and workplaces 39

or social distancing measures are likely to affect future incidence dynamics. 40

Dynamic modeling has played a significant role in providing insight to the measles 41

outbreak dynamics [4,6–15]. Most such contributions employing models seek to 42

incorporate some aspects of local epidemiology, and often draw on surveillance data. 43

While powerful tool for investigating counterfactuals, such models also suffer from an 44

essential set of shortcomings. Firstly, while dynamic models are commonly calibrated to 45

empirical data, this process is typically undertaken on a one-time basis, and with 46

significant human involvement. It is rare for a dynamic model to incorporate ongoing 47

arriving ground data; and while systems doing so can be found for other infectious 48

diseases [40], the authors are not aware of any such support for dynamic modeling of 49

measles. More profoundly, a dynamic model of necessity represents a simplified 50

characterization of processes in the real world. Inevitably, such models often omit, 51

simplify and misestimate some factors. These drawbacks and the infeasibility of 52

anticipating the realized outcome of factors represented as stochastic in the model will 53

inevitably lead the model to diverge from ground truth data. While calibration can 54

allow for estimation of model parameters, it provides weak support for ongoing 55

estimation of latent state needed to keep the state of a model aligned with observations 56

on an ongoing basis. 57

This paper seeks to support more accurate estimation and prediction of measles 58

dynamics by applying a computational statistics technique that combines the best 59

features of insights from ongoing (although noisy) empirical data and dynamic models 60

(although fraught by systematic errors, omissions, and stochastic divergence over time) 61

while mitigating important weaknesses of each. The use of sequential Monte Carlo 62

methods in the form of particle filtering [16–28] has provided an effective and versatile 63

approach to solving this problem in other infectious diseases, such as the influenza. 64

Specifically, this paper investigates the combination of particle filtering methods with a 65

compartmental model (SEIR model) of measles to recurrently estimate the latent state 66

of the population with respect to the natural history of infection with measles, to 67

anticipate measles evolution and outbreak transitions in pre-vaccination era. 68

Results 69

Model characterization and discrepancy comparison 70

To research on the performance of incorporating particle filtering into the 71

compartmental model, we have built 7 models, including 1 normal deterministic model, 72

1 calibration model and 5 particle filtering models. In the particle filtering models, the 73

number of particles are all 5000. These models respectively listed as follows: 74

(1) P ureaggregate. It is simply the deterministic SEIR model with aggregate 75 population, see the Eq (1). The value of the initial infectious population is 90, the 76

initial susceptible population is 89910, the initial exposure population is 0, and 77 the initial recovered population is 773545. The values of β and reporting rate Cr 78 are 50 and 0.11, respectively. 79

(2) Calibratedaggregate. It is the calibration model of the SEIR model with aggregate 80 population. However, the relatively uncertain and stochastic parameters, 81

including initial infectious population, initial susceptible population, the 82 parameter β and reporting rate Cr are obtained by calibration. Finally, they are 83 relatively 930, 89070, 49.598 and 0.119. The initial exposure population is 0, and 84

the initial recovered population is 773545. 85

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(3) PFaggregate. The particle filtering model with homogeneous mixing of all 86 population. 87

(4) PFage 5 monthly. The age structure model where the child age group includes 88 those less than 5 years old, and only incorporated with the monthly reported 89

empirical data. 90

(5) PFage 5 both. The age structure model where the child age group includes those 91 less than 5 years old, and incorporated with both the monthly reported and yearly 92

reported age group empirical data. 93

(6) PFage 15 monthly. The age structure model where the child age group includes 94 those less than 15 years old, and only incorporated with the monthly reported 95

empirical data. 96

(7) PFage 15 both. The age structure model where the child age group includes those 97 less than 15 years old, and incorporated with both the monthly reported and 98

yearly reported age group empirical data. 99

By comparing the discrepancy of these models, we sought to identify the model 100

offering the greatest predictive validity. We then used the most favorable model to 101

perform prediction analysis. To assess model results, each of the five particle filtering 102

models was run 5 times with random seeds generated from the same set. We then 103

calculated the average and 95% confidence intervals of the mean discrepancy. 104

Table 1 and Fig 1 show the comparison of the discrepancy among the seven models. 105

It is notable that the yearly discrepancy is not available for the aggregated population 106

models. The results demonstrate that the particle filtering models strongly decrease the 107

model discrepancy. This indicates that incorporating particle filtering in the 108

compartmental model of measles could help to improve the simulation accuracy. 109

Secondly, the results suggest that the age structure particle filtering models perform 110

better (as measured by discrepancy) than the aggregated population model, because the 111

monthly discrepancy of all the four stratified age group models are smaller than the 112

aggregated population model. Thirdly, an appropriate splitting of the age groups is also 113

important in improving the simulation results of the models. Table 1 and Fig 1 indicate 114

that the discrepancy of stratified age group models splitting the age group at age 15 115

years are all smaller than the models splitting the age group at age 5 years. Finally, 116

results suggest that incorporating both the monthly empirical reported cases and yearly 117

empirical data of each age group may be also helpful in improving the simulation 118

accuracy of the models, but further realizations are required to confirm these results. 119 The results suggest that the model PFage 15 both offers the minimum discrepancy. It is 120 notable that while aggregate population models cannot be compared directly against 121

the other models in terms of total discrepancy, it suffers from the least favorable score 122

in terms of the metric by which comparisons can be made (the monthly discrepancy). 123

Fig 1. Box plots of monthly and yearly discrepancy of all models by incorporating empirical data across all observation points. Each of the five particle filtering models was run 5 times (the random seed generated from same set). Then the average monthly and yearly discrepancy among these five runs at each time between the particle filtering models and the empirical data were plotted.

Result Analysis of the minimal discrepancy model 124

To depict the particle filter results, 2D histograms of reported measles cases calculated 125

by the model and empirical data were plotted. To let the 2D histogram plot 126

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Table 1. Comparison of the average discrepancy of all seven models by incorporating empirical data across all observation points. Model Monthly Yearly in Month Total P ureaggregate 249.0 NONE NONE Calibratedaggregate 207.5 NONE NONE PFaggregate 104.6 (99.4, 109.9) NONE NONE PFage 5 monthly 96.1 (91.5, 100.7) 179.5 (160.6, 198.3) 275.5 (260.2, 290.9) PFage 5 both 97.8 (94.1, 101.5) 144.8 (112.5, 177.1) 242.6 (210.2, 275.1) PFage 15 monthly 95.7 (89.8, 101.6) 45.9 (39.9, 51.9) 141.6 (133.8, 149.4) PFage 15 both 96.1 (91.6, 100.5) 39.9 (34.3, 45.6) 136.0 (127.6, 144.5) Each of the five particle filtering models was run 5 times (the random seed generated from the same set). Shown here are the average and 95% confidence intervals (in parentheses) of the mean discrepancy for each model variant.

characterize the model’s output data with proper weighting in accordance with the 127

principles of importance sampling, we plotted the results of the particles sampled by 128

weights. The resulting plot thus represents an approximation to the probability 129

distribution of reported measles cases characterized by the model. It is notable that the 130

number of particles performed, the number of particles sampled in 2D histograms and 131

the number of particles sampled (also by weight) in calculating the discrepancy in all 132

the models in this paper are all 5000, except where otherwise noted. 133

Fig 2 and Fig 3 display the prior and posterior results of the particle filtering model 134 PFage 15 both for the entire timeframe, respectively. The results include the 2D 135 histogram of monthly reported measles count and the 2D histogram of yearly reported 136

count of each age group. It is notable that because the weights of particles are updated 137

at each month, the 2D histogram plot giving the prior in Fig 2 is not suitable for the 138

yearly result. Values of empirical data points are shown in red. From them we can see 139

that most of the empirical data are located at the range where the particles exhibit high 140

posterior probability. This reflects the fact that the particles could suitably track the 141

oscillation of the epidemic pattern of measles, given the combination of model 142

prediction and observation-based updating that forms the basis for the particle filter. 143

It bears emphasis that the results of the particle filtering model sampled in Fig 2 are 144

before the weight update process in each step, while the results in Fig 3 are after the 145

weight update process in each step. The value of sampled particles of Fig 2 spread in a 146

wider range, compared with Fig 3. This difference in dispersion indicates that the 147

weight update process of particle filtering algorithm in this paper has the capability to 148

combine the empirical data to the particle filtering model to constrain the particles in a 149

tighter range as suggested by the empirical data. 150

Fig 2. 2D histogram prior result of total timeframe of the minimum discrepancy model (monthly).

Fig 3. 2D histogram posterior result of total timeframe of the minimum discrepancy model. (a) the monthly particle filtering result across all population. (b) the yearly particle filtering result of the children and adult age groups.

Particle filtering models can contribute to the estimation of model states and aid in 151

estimating dynamic model parameters. It is notable that, as is widely the case in 152

dynamic models, the states in the compartmental models are latent (e.g., Susceptible 153

(S), Exposure (E), Infectious (I) and Recovered (R) stocks in the SEIR model 154

Eqs (1)–(5) of measles). What can be empirically observed is the noisy reported measles 155

cases related to the Infectious (I) state. However, the methodology of particle filter 156

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provides an approach to estimate (via sampling from) the distribution of values of these 157

latent states. This ability to estimate the value of latent states – such as the reservoir of 158

susceptible people – can aid researchers and public health agencies to in terms of 159

understanding the underlying epidemiological situation from multiple lines of evidence, 160

as constrained by understanding of the structure of the system, as characterized by a 161

dynamic model. To illustrate this, we employ a similar method to the above to plot the 162

2D histogram of the stocks of susceptible, infectious, exposure and recovered sampled 163

according to importance sampling principles. Fig 4 show the results of the plots. These 164

plots indicate that most of the susceptible, exposure and infectious people are located in 165

the children (less than 15 years) age group, while most of the recovered population are 166

located in the adults (equal and greater than 15 years) age group. This lies in 167

accordance with the expectations for measles transmission in the real world and builds 168

confidence in the capacity of the model to meaningfully estimate latent state. As noted 169

below, estimation of latent state can be an important enabler for understanding of the 170

effects of interventions. 171

Fig 4. 2D histogram results for the S, E, I, R stocks with different age groups of the minimum discrepancy model with splitting the age groups at 15 years by incorporating the empirical data across all timeframe. The results shown consider both the yearly and monthly empirical data, with monthly discrepancy 90.7, the sum of all age groups discrepancy in Month is 36.9. (a) across all population. (b) the child age group (those within their first 15 years of life). (c) the adult age group (years 15 and up).

Prediction results of the minimal discrepancy model 172

In this section, we assess the predictive capacity of the minimal discrepancy model 173

identified in the previous section. This minimal discrepancy model is still the minimum 174 one among the group of models PFage 15 both. By changing different Prediction Start 175 ∗ Time of T , we have performed the prediction from different archetypal situations. 176

These situations are listed as follows: 177

(1) Prediction started from the first or second time points of an outbreak. 178

(2) Prediction started before the next outbreak. 179

(3) Prediction started from the peak of an outbreak. 180

(4) Prediction started from the end of an outbreak. 181

Fig 5. 2D histogram of predicting from the first or second time points of an outbreak of the minimum discrepancy model (a) predicted from the month 121, with monthly prediction discrepancy 306.0, the sum of yearly prediction discrepancy of all age groups per month is 246.7. (b) predicted from the month 190, with monthly prediction discrepancy 320.4, the sum of yearly prediction discrepancy of all age groups per month is 237.2.

Figs 5–8 display the prediction results of these situations with the monthly 2D 182

histogram of reported cases of the total population. The empirical data having been 183

considered in the particle filtering process are shown in red (incorporated in training the 184

models), while the empirical data having not been considered in the particle filtering 185

process (only displayed to compared with the results of models) are shown in black. 186

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Fig 6. 2D histogram of predicting from the peak of an outbreak of the minimum discrepancy model. (a) predicted from the month 242, with monthly prediction discrepancy 305.7, the sum of yearly prediction discrepancy of all age groups per month is 205.2. (b) predicted from the month 312, with monthly prediction discrepancy 306.9, the sum of yearly prediction discrepancy of all age groups per month is 201.6.

Fig 7. 2D histogram of predicting from the end of an outbreak of the minimum discrepancy model. (a) predicted from the month 138, with monthly prediction discrepancy 302.6, the sum of yearly prediction discrepancy of all age groups per month is 248.0. (b) predicted from the month 201, with monthly prediction discrepancy 316.7, the sum of yearly prediction discrepancy of all age groups per month is 217.3.

Fig 8. 2D histogram of predicting before the next outbreak of the minimum discrepancy model. (a) predicted from the month 52, with monthly prediction discrepancy 324.9, the sum of yearly prediction discrepancy of all age groups per month is 198.8. (b) predicted from the month 150, with monthly prediction discrepancy 353.0, the sum of yearly prediction discrepancy of all age groups per month is 268.5. It is notable that the values of two parameters has been selected different, to get a more certain predict result – the diffusion coefficient of the transmission rate of

child age group sβc is 0.12, and the particle number of sampling to plot the 2D histogram is 1000 in this two cases.

These prediction results suggest that the particle filter model offers the capacity to 187

probabilistically anticipate measles dynamics with a fair degree of accuracy. From the 188

2D histogram plots, empirical data lying after Prediction Start Time – and thus not 189

considered by the particle filtering machinery – mostly lie within the high-density range 190

of the particles. Notably, in such examples, the particle filter model appears to be able 191

to accurately anticipate a high likelihood of a coming outbreak and non-outbreak. Such 192

an ability could offers substantial value for informing the public health agencies with 193

accurate predictions of the anticipated evolution of measles over coming months. 194

Prediction results of classifying outbreak occurrence of the 195

minimal discrepancy model 196

By incorporating the prediction results of the lowest discrepancy particle filter model 197 PFage 15 both, we could perform a classification-based prediction of whether the measles 198 will break out or not in the next month. Fig 9 displays the ROC curve showing the 199

prediction results. The Area Under the Curve (AUC) of the ROC curve is 0.89, 200

indicating a favourable classification ability. The confusion matrix at the fixed threshold 201 θk = 0.5 is listed in Table 2: 202

Table 2. The confusion matrix of classifying outbreak occurrence at threshold θk = 0.5. 432 months Predicted outbreak Predicted non-outbreak Actual outbreak 18 15 Actual non-outbreak 18 381 The threshold θk = 0.5 indicates that if there are greater and equal than 50% of particles predict outbreak at each time, then this time is labeled as being in an outbreak status. Otherwise, it is classified as a non-outbreak.

The confusion matrix – Table 2 indicates that across the total timeframe (432 203

months), there are 33 months that are labeled measles outbreak in empirical dataset. 204

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Among these 33 data points, 18 data points are predicted as indicating a non-outbreak. 205

Similarly, among the 399 data points labeled non-outbreak in empirical dataset, 381 206

data points are predicted as non-outbreak, while 18 data points are predicted as 207

indicating an outbreak. 208

Fig 10 displays the boxplot of the next month predicted measles counts of sampled 209

particles at the points of the empirical data. The red lines in the boxplot indicate the 210

median of the dataset (the predicted dataset at a specific time). It indicates that the 211

empirical data are located at the range of the predicted data. Thus, we could get the 212

conclusion that the model offers strong predictive performance. 213

Fig 9. The ROC curve of the prediction classification result of the minimum discrepancy model. The AUC is 0.893.

Fig 10. The box plot of the empirical data vs. model calculated results of the minimum discrepancy model.

Discussion 214

In this paper we present a new method for tracking the epidemic pattern of measles in 215

low vaccination regions by applying particle filtering with simple measles transmission 216

models, and incorporating noisy monitored data. Particle filtering offers many 217

attractive features for epidemiological models. Firstly, it relaxes the stiff assumptions of 218

normality with respect to the process and observation noise required by older statistical 219

filtering techniques (such as Kalman Filtering); such assumptions are often particularly 220

problematic in epidemiological contexts with small sample counts. Secondly, particle 221

filtering is especially well suited to non-linear models such as that used here, because it 222

foregoes focus on a single Maximum Likelihood Estimate seen in the Kalman Filter – 223

which can be particularly problematic in the context of state uncertainty that can span 224

multiple basins of attraction – and instead samples from a distribution of possible states 225

for a given time-point. In our study, the particle filtering algorithm has mitigated 226

significant weaknesses and simplifications associated with aggregate compartmental 227

models and noisy empirical data. By incorporating ongoing arriving empirical data, the 228

particle filter model has the capability to correct for distortions that accompany 229

compartmental model aggregation, such as assumptions of random mixing and 230

homogeneity. In this dataset, the particle filter offered strong performance in estimating 231

the epidemic pattern of measles and predicting future trends. 232

Specifically, five particle filter models were investigated in this project. By 233

comparing the results, the strongest predictive performance emerged from the age 234

stratified model whose child age group is defined as including those up to 15 years old, 235

and considering both monthly empirical data of total population and yearly reported 236

cases of each age group. However, testing the models over additional realizations is 237

required in order to validate these results. Finally, we perform prediction analysis based 238

on this best model. The results suggest that particle filtering approaches offer notable 239

strengths in predicting of occurrence of measles outbreak in the subsequent month. 240

A key benefit of particle filtering lies in its capacity to estimate the latent state of 241

the system – state that cannot be directly measured, but which is jointly implied by the 242

combination of empirical time series and the hypthesized structure of the system, as 243

captured in the mathematical model. It is important to stress that a key motivation for 244

conducting particle filtering to infer latent state in this way lies in the fact that reliable 245

understanding of such latent state is important for estimating the impact of 246

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interventions enacted at that point. By estimating the latent state of the system using 247

particle filtering, we can then conduct “what if” scenarios forward from that point, each 248

of which characterize the effects of interventions. Accurate estimation of the state of the 249

system prior to initiation of different intervention strategies will frequently be an 250

important enabler for accurately assessing the differential effects of those interventions. 251

The particle filtering algorithm in general also has important limitations, such as 252

information loss and particle collapse [39] during the evolutionary process of the 253

particles. These limitations are also inherited in the algorithm applying in this paper 254

that combines particle filtering with a compartmental transmission models. Moreover, 255

the treatment here further suffers from some further challenges. For simplicity, the 256

condensation algorithm is employed in calculating the proposal distribution. However, 257

this algorithm may contribute to a loss of the diversity of particle filtering models. 258

These limitations could be relieved by taking more particles during the calculation, or 259

restricting the particles in appropriate range of changes by selecting the values of 260

parameters in more tightly informed ranges. Finally, a key limitation in terms of 261

practical implications the findings in the developed world reflects the fact that we have 262

focused on prediction in a non-vaccine context; there remains a key uncertainty as to 263

the degree to which the approach proposed here will offer high predictive capacity in the 264

context of sporadic, low attack rate outbreaks characteristic of measles epidemiology in 265

developed countries within the vaccination era. 266

Much work remains to be undertaken. While particle filtering techniques we 267

investigated in this paper have immediate application in populations with low vaccine 268

coverage (including isolated pockets of population or individuals who refuse vaccination 269

in jurisdictions with otherwise high vaccination coverage), in the future, we will consider 270

vaccination state in the measles particle filter model, to simulate the measles 271

transmission pattern in high vaccination regions in the vaccination era more broadly. 272

Such a model could be helpful for predicting the outbreak of measles in regions suffering 273

from borderline or waning vaccination rates due to vaccine hesitancy, health disparities 274

or other causes. We further plan to apply more powerful techniques, such as Particle 275

Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods that can allow for jointly estimating the latent 276

state of the model and static parameter values whose values are poorly known. Finally, 277

we also plan to investigate more sophisticated means of predicting outbreak occurrence 278

based on particle filtering results. It appears likely that such refinements will further 279

enhance the already strong advantages conferred by particle filtering methods and 280

variants in measles transmission modeling. 281

We conclude that anticipating the epidemic pattern of measles in low vaccination 282

regions by applying particle filtering with simple measles transmission models so as to 283

recurrently incorporate successive elements of time series of reported case counts is a 284

valuable technique to assist public health authorities in estimating risk and magnitude 285

of measles outbreaks. Such approaches offer particularly strong value proposition for 286

other pathogens with little-known dynamics, critical latent drivers, and in the context of 287

the growing emergence of high-velocity electronic data sources. Additional strong 288

benefits will be realized by extending the application of this technique to highly 289

vaccinated populations. 290

Materials and methods 291

The introduction of the mathematical SEIR model 292

This project employs a measles SEIR model [15] as the disease transmission component 293

of the state-equation model in particle filtering. A time unit of months is used, so as to 294

be consistent with the empirical data [29]. Moreover, while the original model lacked 295

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age stratification, we also explore an age structured variant of the model. The two 296

model variants used in this paper are introduced as follows. 297

Re-dimensionalized aggregate model 298

This model, which can be found in [15], contains 4 state variables: (S-Susceptible, 299

E-Exposure, I-Infectious, R-Recovered). The original model [15] makes use of a 300

formulation in which each state variable is of unit dimension, representing a fraction of 301

the entire population. However, for the sake of comparison against empirical data, the 302

model in this paper is represented in a re-dimensionalized fashion, with the state 303

variables representing counts of persons. In the first step, we re-dimensionalized the 304

original model. The resulting aggregate compartmental equations are as follows: 305 dS I = Nv − (β + µ)S dt N dE I = β S − (σ + µ) E dt N (1) dI = σE − (γ + µ) I dt dR = γI − µR dt

The meaning of the states and parameters are as follows: S, E, I and R are the count of 306

Susceptible, Exposed, Infectious and Recovered people in the population, respectively. 307

N is the total number of people, and N=S+E+I+R. v is the birth rate (of unit 308 −1 −1 1/Month) and µ is the death rate (also of unit 1/Month). σ and γ are the mean 309

incubation and infectious periods (in months) of the disease, respectively. β is the rate 310

of effective contact between individuals, and reflects both the contact rate and 311

transmission probability (β = contact rate × transmission probability), and is thus of 312

unit 1/Month. The population size N was obtained from Saskatchewan during the years 313

from 1921 to 1956. We take the mean of the population across these years to be the 314

value of parameter N. This is associated with the empirical dataset [29]. As noted 315

below, while β was treated in [15] as a constant, we took advantage of particle filtering 316

by allowing it to vary over the course of the timeframe explored. The other values of 317

parameters were obtained from [15]. 318

Re-dimensionalized age structured model 319

Measles has a severe impact on children’s health and is one of the leading causes of 320

death among young children globally. Measles transmission pattern may be different 321

among different age groups [8]. For example, the age composition of daily contacts may 322

be different for different age groups; children may spend more time with other children 323

and their caregivers, rather than with other adults. Moreover, the rates of contacts 324

sufficiently close to transmitting infection can differ between age groups, such as due to 325

hygienic disparities. To capture such differences, beyond the original model, we created 326

a version of the SEIR model stratified by two age groups: children and adults. 327

In this variant of the mathematical model, we use subscripts “c” and “a” for a 328

quantity to denote the child- and adult-specific values of that quantity, respectively. We 329

further assume in the demographic model (whose formulation and derivation are 330 introduced in [30]), that the population of each age group (Nc,Na) does not change. 331 Similar to the parameter of total population (N) in the aggregate model, the mean of 332

the population of each age group across the timeframe in the age pyramid of 333 Saskatchewan [31] is employed as the value of Nc and Na (where the sum of Nc and Na 334

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equals N). The resulting age-structured SEIR model is as follows; readers interested in 335

additional detail are referred to S1 Appendix: 336

" dSc #         " Ic #!   dt Nava −ωSc βcSc ◦ fcc fca Nc µcSc dS = + − × I − a 0 ωSc βaSa fac faa a µaSa dt Na " dEc #       " Ic #!     dt −ωEc βcSc ◦ fcc fca Nc Ec µcEc dE = + × I − σ − a ωEc βaSa fac faa a Ea µaEa dt Na " # (2) dIc −ωI   E   I   µ I  dt = c + σ c − γ c − c c dIa ωI E I µ I dt c a a a a " # dRc −ωR   I   µ R  dt = c + γ c − c c dRa ωR I µ R dt c a a a ◦ where indicates the Hadamard (element-wise) product; × indicates matrix 337 h i βcfcc βcfca multiplication; is the contact matrix: fcc indicates the fraction of 338 βafac βafaa children’s infectious contacts that occur with other children; similarly fca indicates the 339 fraction of children’s infectious contacts that occur with adults, and fca=1-fcc; fac 340 indicates the fraction of adult’s infectious contacts that occur with children; 341 faa = 1 − fac indicates the fraction of adult’s infectious contacts that occur with other 342 adults; ω is the aging rate out of the age group of children (which carries the same 343 meaning with c1 in the demographic model in [30]). va is the birth rate for adults, for 344 children, the birth rate is 0. The other parameters hold the same role and values as in 345

the age-aggregated model. 346

h i βcfcc βcfca The contact matrix model In the contact matrix , as covered more 347 βafac βafaa fully in section “Particle filter implementation in the base model” below, the parameters 348 βc, βa and fcc are treated as varying across the model time horizon (like the parameter 349 of β in Eq (1)). Based upon their values, the other parameters in contact matrix (fca, 350 fac, faa) can be calculated as in Eq (3); a detailed mathematical deduction of Eq (3) 351 can be found in S2 Appendix: 352

fca = 1 − fcc  h i Ncβc Ncβc (1 − fcc) , if (1 − fcc) < 1.0  Naβa Naβa fac = h i (3) Ncβc 1.0, if (1 − fcc) ≥ 1.0  Naβa

faa = 1 − fac

The equilibrium demographic model The population model is listed as 353

follows [30]: 354

dNc = Nava − µcNc − ωNc dt (4) dN a = ωN − µ N dt c a a

Where Nc is the population of the child age group; Na is the population of the adult 355 age group; va is the birth rate (applying only to adults); µc is the death rate of child 356 age group; µa is the death rate of the adult age group. 357 While measles infection can be lethal, for simplicity, the death rates of all states in 358

the models of this paper are the same; the interested reader is referred to S3 Appendix 359

for additional commentary. 360

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As a result of the assumption of an invariant population size, it follows that death 361

rates for children and adults are as follows; the interested readers are referred to S4 362

Appendix for a detailed mathematical derivation. 363

N µ = a v − ω c N a c (5) Nc µa = ω Na

Introduction to particle filter 364

Particle filtering is a modern methodology that fits into the broader “statistical filtering” 365

tradition that, as time passes, combines estimates generated by a dynamic model (a 366

model that simulates the evolution of a system over time) with arriving empirical 367

observations. As new data arrives, statistical filtering methods provide a means of 368

arriving at a sort of “consensus estimate” for the current state of the system (as 369

represented by the simulation model) – an estimate that recognizes and balances 370

uncertainty associated with the model (on the one hand) with uncertainty with regards 371

to the observations (on the other). Particle filtering is a very well established 372

contemporary statistical filtering method [32] that is widely employed in fields such as 373

robotics but comparatively new in the sphere of health modeling [16, 17, 24, 26]. 374

Each of the states in the distribution for a given time can be seen as representing a 375

competing hypothesis concerning the underlying state of the system at that time, and 376

the Particle Filtering itself can be viewed as undertaking a “survival of the fittest” of 377

these hypotheses, with fitness determined by the consistency between the expectations 378

of the hypothesis as to what should be observed at observations times, and what is in 379

fact observed at each of those times. Drawing on the theory of Sequential Importance 380

Sampling [16, 32,33], this distribution is characterized as a collection of 381

importance-weighted samples, each of which is termed a “particle”. At an intuitive level, 382

a particle’s weight at the current time represents an approximation to the probability of 383

the state represented by that particle in fact obtaining at that time. This weight is, in 384

turn, determined by the consistency of the state being hypothesized by that particle 385

with the observations, as quantified by a likelihood function specifying the likelihood of 386

making a given observation in light of the state captured by the particle. 387

Interested readers are referred to more detailed treatment in [16,32–34]. 388

Classifying outbreak occurrence 389

In this paper, we also investigate the effectiveness of using the particle filtering model in 390

predicting the outbreak of measles in the next time unit (month). The goal of this 391

classification is to map from the reported cases of measles predicted by particle filtering 392

model in the next month to the class of outbreak or non-outbreak. This mapping can be 393

represented by the following equation [32]: 394

(i) zk = f(Irpk) (6)

 N Tf n (i) o s where Irpk indicates the matrix of the reported cases of measles predicted 395 i=1 k=1 by the particle filtering model of particle i (1 ≤ i ≤ Ns) at time k (1 ≤ k ≤ Tf ). Tf is 396 Tf the total running time of the model.{zk}k=1 is the vector of the predicted classes – 397 zk ∈ {0, 1}, where 0 indicates non-outbreak, and 1 indicates outbreak. The value Irpk 398 is generated by the particle filtering models. Specifically, the Irpk equals Irmk in the 399

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aggregated particle filtering model (see Eq (11)), and equals Irmck + Irmak in the two 400 age groups structured models (see Eq (15)). 401

Two processes are then used to perform the classification analysis of the results from 402 particle filtering models. In the first process, we define a threshold (θik) of a particle i 403 at time k above which to consider that particle as positing an outbreak. In the second 404 process, we define a threshold of fraction (θk) of particles required to posit an outbreak 405 at time k for us to consider there as being an outbreak. Then, the vector of determining 406 whether there is an outbreak of measles in each month – zk – is calculated. 407 Tf We further denote {ylk}k=1 as the empirical vector of whether a measles outbreak 408 indeed obtained at time k, ylk ∈ {0, 1}. The calculation method of ylk is similar to that 409 of each particle. If the measles reported cases is greater or equal than the threshold θik, 410 the related element in vector ylk is labeled to be outbreak (the value is 1). Otherwise, 411 non-outbreak (the value is 0). 412

Finally, to summarize the performance of the classifier, we employ metrics such as 413

the confusion matrix, area under the Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curve, 414

etc. Readers interested in additional detail are referred to S5 Appendix. 415

The algorithm of particle filter with next month prediction 416

output 417

In light of the brief introduction to particle filtering above, the generic particle filter 418

algorithm that we employed in this paper is given as follows [16,33, 34]: 419

1. At time k=0: 420

N(i) N (1) Sample X0 from q0(x0 ); 421

(i) 1 (2) Compute a weight for each particle w = . It indicates that the weight at 422 0 Ns initial time follows the uniform distribution. 423

2. At time k ≥ 1, perform a recursive update as follows: 424

N(i) N N(i) (1) Advance the sampled state by sampling Xk ∼ qk(xk |yk,X0:k−1) and set 425 N(i) N(i) N(i) X0:k = (X0:k−1,Xk ); 426

(i) (i) (2) To support classification, output Irpk by importance sampling, where Irpk is the 427 sum of all the age groups in the age structured model; 428

(3) Update the weights to reflect the probabilistic and state update models as follows: 429

M N(i) N(i) N(i) (i) (i) p(yk |Xk )p(Xk |Xk−1 ) 430 wk = Wk−1 N(i) N(i) M . q(Xk |Xk−1 ,yk )

(i) (i) wk 431 Normalize the weights Wk = PNs (i) i=1 wk

1 (3) Calculate the S : 2 432 eff PNs (i) i=1 (wk )

(4) If Seff < ST (ST is the minimum effective sample size – the threshold of 433 N(i) resampling), perform resampling to get a new set of Xk . And set the weight of 434 1 the new particles as . 435 Ns

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Particle filter implementation in the base model 436

The state-space model 437

The SEIR model is employed as the governing equations underlying the state space 438 model (denoted as gk) of particle filtering, which is introduced in Eqs (1)–(5). Then 439 N(i) each particle at time k, noted as Xk , represents a complete copy of the system states 440 at that point of time. Except for the basic states in the SEIR model (S, E, I, R), models 441

of infection transmission are often related to more complex dynamics – such as 442

parameters evolving according to stochastic processes. 443

Aggregate model In the aggregate model (i.e., the model not stratified by age), 444

three essential stochastic processes are considered. Firstly, we consider changes in the 445

transmissible contact rate linking infectious and susceptible persons, which is 446

represented by the parameter β. A second area in which we consider parameter 447

evolution is with respect to the disease reporting process. Specifically, to simulate this 448

process, a parameter – representing the probability that a given measles infectious case 449 is reported Cr, and a state Im – calculating the accumulative measles infectious cases 450 per unit time (per Month in this paper) – are implemented. Finally, the model includes 451

a stochastic process (specifically, a Poisson process) associated with incidence of 452

infection. This process reflects the small number of cases that occur over each small 453

unit of time (∆t). The stochastics associated with these factors represents a composite 454

of two factors. Firstly, there is expected to both be stochastic variability in the measles 455

infection processes and some evolution in the underlying transmission dynamics in 456

terms of changes in reporting rate, and changes in mixing. Secondly, such stochastic 457

variability allows characterization of uncertainty associated with respect to model 458

dynamics – reflecting the fact that both the observations and the model dynamics share 459

a high degree of fallability. Given an otherwise deterministic simulation model such as 460

that considered here, there is a particular need to incorporate added stochastic 461

variability in parameters and flows capture the uncertainty in simulation results. 462 To estimate the changing values of these two stochastic parameters (β and Cr) and 463 to investigate the capacity of the particle filter to adapt to parameters whose effective 464

values evolve over simulation, the state associated with each particle includes the 465 contact transmission rate β and reported rate Cr. Thus, each particle in this project is 466 T associated with a state vector x = [S,E,I,R,β,Cr,Im] . 467 Reflecting the fact that the transmissible contact rate β varies over the entire range 468

of positive real numbers, we treat the natural logarithm of the transmissible contact 469

rate (denoted by β) as undergoing a random walk according to a Wiener Process 470

(Brownian Motion) [35,36]. The stochastic differential equation of transmissible contact 471

rate can thus be described according to Stratonovich notation as: 472

dln(β) = sβdWt (7)

where dWt is a standard Wiener process following the normal distribution with 0 of 473 dln(β) mean and unit rate of variance. Then, dt follows the normal distribution with 0 of 474 2 mean and variance sβ . In this paper, we selected an initial value of β following a 475 uniform distribution in the interval [40, 160) across all particles. Unless otherwise noted, 476 the constant value of the diffusion coefficient sβ used is 0.8. 477 Over the multi-decadal model time horizon, and particularly on account of shifting 478

risk perception, there can be notable evolution in the degree to which infected 479

individuals or their guardians seek care. To capture this evolution, we consider 480 evolution in the fraction of underlying measles cases that are reported (denoted by Cr). 481 Reflective of the fact that Cr varies over the range [0,1], we characterize the logit of Cr 482 as also undergoing Brownian Motion according to Stratonovich notation as: 483

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Cr d(logit(Cr)) = d(ln( )) = srdWt (8) 1 − Cr

where the initial value of Cr among particles follows a uniform distribution in the 484 interval [0.11, 0.15). The diffusion coefficient (sr) associated with the perturbations to 485 the logit of Cr over dt is selected to be a constant 0.03 across all particles in this paper. 486 To incorporate the empirical data, we further implement a convenience state Im with 487 respect to the cumulative count of infectious cases per unit time (Month). The state Im 488 is different from the state I. Specifically, the state of an cumulative count of infectious 489 cases per unit time Im only considers all the inflows to the infectious state and without 490 all the outflows, to simulate the same process of reporting the measles cases in the real 491 world. The cumulative infectious cases Im of measles at time k is: 492

Z k Imk = (σE)dt (9) k−1

Then, the reported cases at time k calculated by the model would be: 493

Irmk = ImkCr (10)

In total, the compartmental model without age stratification is the combination of 494

the classic SEIR model and these three stochastic processes: 495

dS P oisson(β I S∆t) = Nv − N − µS dt ∆t dE P oisson(β I S∆t) = N − (σ + µ)E dt ∆t dI = σE − (γ + µ) I dt dR = γI − µR dt (11) d(lnβ) = sβdWt

Cr d(ln( ) = srdWt 1 − Cr Z k Imk = (σE)dt k−1

Irmk = ImkCr

To solve the system above, we made use of Euler integration with a time step of 0.01 496

Month (i.e., ∆t= 0.01 Month in Eq (11)). The same approach was also used in the 497

stratified system presented in Eq (15) below. 498

Fig 11. The mathematical structure of the particle filtering aggregate model.

Age stratified model In the age stratified model, four stochastic parameters and 499

two extra states are considered dynamically, compared with the original SEIR model 500

(Eqs (2)–(5)). The stochastic process related to incidence of infection is also considered 501

in the age structured state space model, as in the aggregated model above (Eq (11)). 502

The first stochastic parameter is the same as in the aggregate group model: the disease 503 reporting process parameter (Cr), whose dynamics are characterized according to 504

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Eq (8). The second is the rate of transmissible contacts between infectious persons and 505 susceptible persons of child age group, which is represented by the parameter (βc) in the 506 age structured model – Eq (2). The equation and chosen values of (βc) are the same 507 with Eq (7). The third stochastic parameter (Ma) represents the ratio of the adult age 508 group’s transmissible contact rate (βa) to that of the child age group (βc). And we have 509 βa = Maβc. Reflecting the fact that this parameter represents a non-negative real 510 number, similar to the rate of transmissible contacts (β) in the aggregate state space 511 model, we treat the natural logarithm of Ma as undergoing a random walk according to 512 a Brownian motion: 513

d(lnMa) = sMa dWt (12)

It is a widespread perception that because of limited hygienic awareness and other 514

factors, children are subject to higher rates of transmissible contact than adults. This 515 would suggest that the value of the multiplier Ma normally less than 1.0. Thus, we 516 elected to impose an initial value of Ma across all particles as drawn from a uniform 517

518 distribution with support [0.2, 1). And, the diffusion coefficient (sMa ) associated with the evolution of d(lnMa) is chosen to be a constant value of 0.5 among all particles. 519 The fourth stochastic parameter in the stratified model is the fraction of the contact 520 of children that occurs with other children, denoted as fcc. This parameter appears in 521 the contact matrix, and varies over the range from 0 to 1. As a result, the dynamic 522 process for fcc is similar to the disease report rating Cr with the Eq (8), specifically: 523

fcc d(ln( )) = sccdWt (13) 1 − fcc

The initial value of fcc we employed follows a uniform distribution in the interval [0.2, 524 1.0). We assumed a constant value of 0.2 as the diffusion coefficient (scc) associated 525 with the logit of fcc. 526 Finally, the new state of cumulative infectious count per unit time is implemented 527

similar to aggregate model (Eq (9)), except for its division into two distinct states 528 according to stratification into two age groups (Imc and Ima). The discrete time 529 equations of Imc and Ima and reported infectious count per unit time in model Irmc and 530 Irma at time k are as follows: 531

Z k Imck = (σEc)dt k−1 Z k Imak = (σEa)dt (14) k−1     Irmck Imck = Cr Irmak Imak

N T The state vector x is [Sc,Sa,Ec,Ea,Ic,Ia,Rc,Ra, βc,Ma, fcc,Cr,Imc,Ima] in 532 the age stratified model, and N equals 14. The complete set of state equation for the 533

age-stratified model is given in (15): 534

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h i h i  Ic  βcSc∆t ◦ fcc fca Nc " # P oisson × I dSc     βaSa∆t fac faa a   N v −ωS N µ S dt = a a + c − a − c c dSa 0 ωS ∆t µ S dt c a a h i h i  Ic  βcSc∆t ◦ fcc fca Nc " # P oisson × I dEc   βaSa∆t fac faa a     −ωE N E µ E dt = c + a − σ c − c c dEa ωE ∆t E µ E dt c a a a " # dIc −ωI   E   I   µ I  dt = c + σ c − γ c − c c dIa ωI E I µ I dt c a a a a " # dRc −ωR   I   µ R  dt = c + γ c − c c dRa ωR I µ R dt c a a a

d(lnβc) = sβc dWt fcc d(ln( )) = sccdWt 1 − fcc

d(lnMa) = sMa dWt

βa = Maβc

Cr d(ln( )) = srdWt 1 − Cr fca = 1 − fcc  h i Ncβc Ncβc (1 − fcc) , if (1 − fcc) < 1.0  Naβa Naβa fac = h i Ncβc 1.0, if (1 − fcc) ≥ 1.0  Naβa

faa = 1 − fac

Na µc = va − ω Nc Nc µa = ω Na Z k Imck = (σEc)dt k−1 Z k Imak = (σEa)dt k−1     Irmck Imck = Cr Irmak Imak (15)

Reflective of the structure of the age group stratification in available data, it is 535

notable that we have considered two different age group configurations in this paper: 536 one where the child age group includes those up to 5 years old (Mage 5) and another 537 where it includes those up to 15 years old (Mage 15). 538

Fig 12. The mathematical structure of the particle filtering age stratified model.

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The measurement model 539

As introduced in particle filtering tutorials [33,34], the measurement model characterizes 540

the relationship between the measured data and the model. In this paper, we denote the 541 M measurement vector as yk , where M indicates the length of the measurement vector. 542

M Aggregate model In the aggregate model, the measurement vector yk is 543 one-dimensional (representing empirical dataset of monthly reported measles infected 544 cases), that is, M equals 1. We denote the value of empirically reported cases as Iem. 545 Then, at time k, the measurement model can be represented as: 546

Iemk = Irmk + nmk (16)

where Irmk is calculated by the state space model of Eq (11), and nmk is the 547 measurement noise related to the monthly reported cases. 548

Age stratified model In the age stratified model, empirical observations can include 549 M three components. Thus, in the measurement vector yk , M is 3 in age stratified model. 550 In addition to the empirical data associated with monthly reported cases, empirical data 551

further include annual reported cases for each of the two age groups (children and 552

adults). The measurement model of age stratified model in this paper can thus be 553

represented as: 554

Iemk = (Irmak + Irmck) + nmk

Ieycky = Iycky + nycky (17)

Ieyaky = Iyaky + nyaky

where Iemk is the same as in the aggregate model in Eq (16); Irmak and Irmck are 555

556 calculated in the state space model of the age stratified model in Eq (15); Ieycky

consists of the annual measured cases of child age group, while Ieyaky represents the 557

annual measured cases of adult age group; Iycky and Iyaky are the annual reported cases 558 calculated by the state space model of Eq (15) of children and adult age group, 559

560 respectively; nycky and nyaky are the measurement noise associated with these two age groups. 561 It is notable that the subscript ky indicates annual time points, while the unit of 562

time in the models in this paper is month. Thus Iycky and Iyaky could be obtained by 563 the sum of Irmak and Irmck in the model each year. 564

The proposal distribution 565

The Condensation Algorithm [32, 37] is applied in this project to implement the particle 566

filter model. It is the simplest and most widely used proposal distribution, and consists 567

of a proposal distribution that is the same as the prior [32,33]. 568

Likelihood function 569

In this project, the observed data is of two types – the monthly reported incidence case 570

count of measles and annual reported cases within different age groups. As previously 571

introduced, the measured data is the reported cases of measles in this paper. The 572 M N likelihood function p(yk |xk ) describes such a reporting process, and specifies the 573 probability that a given measles case in the dynamic model will be measured. We 574

followed several past contributions [16,17, 20,38] in selecting the negative binomial 575

distribution as the basis for the likelihood function, which allows for greater robustness 576

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than the classic binomial distribution. Readers interested in additional detail are 577

referred to S6 Appendix. 578

The equation associated with the likelihood function is thus as follows: 579

y + r − 1 k yk r p(yk|xk) = p (1 − p) (18) yk

xk where yk is the empirical data (reported measles cases) at time k, p = 580 xk+r representing the probability that a given measured reported case is in fact a true 581 reported incident case, and xk is the (integer rounded) incident cases resulting from the 582 dynamic model at time k. r is the dispersion parameter associated with the negative 583

binomial distribution. In all scenarios reported in this paper, the value of r is chosen to 584

be 10. 585

Aggregate model 586

In the aggregate model, because the model lacks the capacity to distinguish between 587

individuals within different age groups as necessary to compare to the yearly 588

age-stratified reported values, the measured data is a one-dimensional vector consisting 589

of the monthly reported cases. It indicates that the weight update rule (likelihood 590

function) of the aggregate model could simply achieved by calculating the value of 591 p(ymk|Irmk), where (ymk is the empirical data as given by the monthly reported measles 592 cases at time k, and Irmk is the reported cases calculated by the dynamic model. 593

Age stratified model 594

In the age stratified model, the weight update rule is similar to that in the aggregate 595

model, except for the update associated with the close of each year. Specifically, the 596

weights of particles associated with the age stratified model from January to November 597

are only updated by the monthly empirical data – monthly measles reported cases at 598

each time (using the likelihood function given in Eq (18)). However, the weight at the 599

end of the last month (December) of each year is updated by the combination of three 600

parts. The likelihood formulation of age stratified model is listed as follows: 601

LAgeStructuredModel = Lmonth ∗ LyearlyChild ∗ LyearlyAdult

Lmonth = p(ymk|Irmk) ( 1, if (k mod 12) 6= 0 LyearlyChild = (19) p(yyck|Iryck), if (k mod 12) = 0 ( 1, if (k mod 12) 6= 0 LyearlyAdult = p(yyak|Iryak), if (k mod 12) = 0

where Lmonth is the likelihood function based on the monthly empirical data for the 602 total population. The other two likelihood functions reflect the fact that annual totals 603 are available on an age-specific basis at year end. LyearlyChild is the likelihood function 604 based on the yearly empirical data for the child age group. LyearlyAdult is the likelihood 605 function based on the yearly empirical data of the adult age group. 606

Evaluating particle filter performance 607

To assess the accuracy of particle filtering for robust estimation of model states, it is 608

essential to evaluate the estimation and predictive capacity of the particle filtered 609

models. In this project, we therefore sought to calculate the discrepancy at each 610

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observation time (Month in this paper) [16] between the model generated data and 611

empirical data, using a linear measure. Reflecting the dual sources of data employed, 612

the discrepancy includes monthly discrepancy and yearly discrepancy, with the total 613

discrepancy representing the sum of these quantities. 614

Typically, there will be thousands of particles included in each model run. To 615

calculate the discrepancy of particle filter results by incorporating empirical data across 616

all time points, we sample n particles by importance sampling for each such time. The 617

monthly discrepancy of each time is simply the Root Mean Squared error (RMSE) 618

between the monthly empirical data at that time and the related data calculated by the 619

particle filtering model [16,22]. To get the yearly discrepancy of each time (here, 620

successive Months), the RMSE was calculated for each age group of each year (similary 621

to monthly discrepancy). Then the yearly discrepancy is the sum across all age groups 622

of the yearly RMSE over 12 (to convert the unit to Month). 623

Moreover, to investigate the predictive capability and efficiency of particle filter 624 ∗ model, we defined a variable “Prediction Start Time”, denoted by T ; it indicates the 625 ∗ time 1 ≤ k < T up to which the weights of particles are updated based on the observed 626 ∗ data. When k ≥ T , the particle filtering ceases – the weights of particles are no longer 627

updated and no further re-sampling occurs. During that period (i.e., following the 628

Prediction Start Time), particles simply continue to evolve according to the state space 629

model shown in Eq (11) or Eq (15) (depending on whether an age-specific model is 630 ∗ being applied). For such a Prediction Start Time T , the model calculated a prediction 631

discrepancy using a simple variant of the strategy of the discrepancy used in considering 632 ∗ all the time frame, but limited to considering only times T and larger. 633

Empirical dataset 634

Measles reported cases 635

In this project, the empirical data consists of the time series from 1921 to 1956 of 636

reported measles cases for the mid-western Canadian province of Saskatchewan. These 637

aggregate data are obtained from Annual Report of the Saskatchewan Department of 638

Public Health [29]. We have employed two datasets: monthly reported measles cases 639

aggregated across the total population and yearly reported cases in each of different age 640

groups. In the empirical yearly dataset, these yearly reported cases are split into 641

different age groups. In a small minority of years (from 1926 to 1941), the age 642

categories present in the reported data do not correspond neatly to the age group 643

categories in the models (considering children as being those within their first 5 years or 644

first 15 years). For these cases, we split them into the age categories of the models 645

proportionally. Readers interested in additional detail are referred to S7 Appendix. 646

We consider the pre-vaccination era of measles within Saskatchewan to study the 647

natural dynamics of measles in low vaccination areas. The time of the monthly 648

empirical data is from Jan. 1921 to Dec. 1956, with the monthly dataset offering a total 649

of 432 records. The yearly age specific data are from 1925 to 1956, reflecting the fact 650

that reporting of age specific data is only started in 1925. Every record contains three 651

features – date, measles reported cases and population size. To make them consistent 652

with the total population size of the dynamic model (863,545), the empirical data are 653

normalized to the same population size of the model. The normalized monthly empirical 654

data are shown in Fig 13; it can be readily appreciated that the time series demonstrates 655

the classic patterns of waxing and waning incorporating both stochastics and regularities 656

characteristic of many childhood infectious diseases in the pre-vaccination era. 657

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Fig 13. The monthly reported measles cases in Saskatchewan from 1921 to 1956. The values given are normalized by the population employed in the model (863,545).

Population introduction 658

In this project, the parameters of the population play a significant role in the models 659 (Eqs (1)–(5)). The parameters (N, Nc, Na) related to the population are abstracted 660 from the empirical population data of Saskatchewan from 1921 to 1956 [31]. From 1921 661

to 1956, the empirical population lies in the interval from 757,000 to 932,000. And the 662

empirical total population of Saskatchewan in these years does not exhibit drastic 663

fluctuation [31]. Thus, we let the model population remain constant at 863,545, which 664

represents the mean population over that interval. Also, the monthly total and yearly 665

age groups’ empirical measles reported cases are normalized to the model population. It 666

is notable that we employ an equilibrium population model – the total population and 667

population among each age group will stay the same, rather than change. Similarly, the 668

values of the population in each age group also employs the average population among 669

1921 to 1956 in their age group as given by the age pyramid [31]. 670

Parameters 671

−1 −1 The important fixed parameters in the models are γ , σ , v, µ, va, N, Nc15, Na15, 672 Nc5, Na5. The values of birth rate were also obtained from the Annual Report of the 673 −1 Saskatchewan Department of Public Health [29]. The values of parameters of γ and 674 −1 σ are as given by [15]. Moreover, to compare the results, we have built two types of 675

age structured models – one where the lower age group consists of children below 5 676 years of age (with population in child age group denoted as Nc5, and population of 677 adult age group denoted as Na5), and another in which children consist of individuals 678 below 15 years of age (population of age groups denoted as Nc15 and Na15, respectively). 679 Thus, the birth rates are different among these two types of models (denoted as va5 and 680 va15 respectively), to let all the models have a similar birth population per unit time. 681 Finally, all the compartmental parameters are specified at Table 3. The initial value of 682

all stocks in the particle filtering models are given in S1 Table. 683

Table 3. Table showing the value of parameters. Parameter Value Units γ−1 5 Day v 0.03 1/Year µ 0.03 1/Year N 863,545 Person σ−1 8 Day va15 0.045 1/Year va5 0.034 1/Year Nc5 98,743 Person Na5 764,802 Person Nc15 286,537 Person Na15 577,008 Person

Supporting information 684

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S1 Appendix. The mathematical deduction of the age structured 685

epidemiology model. 686

S2 Appendix. The mathematical deduction of the contact matrix model. 687

S3 Appendix. The complementary comments of the parameter of death 688

rate. 689

S4 Appendix. The mathematical deduction of the death rate. 690

S5 Appendix. The further introduction of the classification method. 691

S6 Appendix. The shortcoming of choosing the binomial distribution as 692

the likelihood function. 693

S7 Appendix. The further introduction of split the measles yearly 694

reported cases to each age group. 695

S1 Table. The Initial Values of All Particle Filtering Models. 696

Acknowledgments 697

We thank Weicheng Qian and Anahita Safarishahrbijari for the suggestions of building 698

models; we also thank Lujie Duan for the help of debugging the models. 699

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