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covid-19-predictive-modelIIT Kharagpur develops Covid-19 predictive model for decision-making

India Today (June 22, 2020)

IIT Kharagpur has developed a Covid-19 predictive model for decision-making.

IIT Kharagpur has developed a prediction system to help predict the future spread of COVID-19 and help decision making in health-care, industry, economy, and even academics. Prof. Abhijit Das from the Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering has developed a logistic model that can be used to fit the available daily counts of infection cases.

The data used for the predictions pertain to the entire country, and for the eight most affected states in the country including Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, West Bengal, and Madhya Pradesh.

Covid-19 prediction study

Talking about the model development of Prof. Das said, "The uses only daily infection counts available in the public domain without accessing sensitive information pertaining to medical records or contact-tracing data for a large fraction of the population. Despite that, the prediction curves show remarkably good fitting with the past data, and can be used for future planning." (Read More) (The KGP Chronicle Article) (Hindustan Times article) (Times of India article)