COVID-19 incidence and mortality in Nigeria: gender based analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been surging globally. Risk strata in medical attention are of dynamic significance for apposite assessment and supply distribution. Presently, no known cultured contrivance is available to fill this gap of this pandemic. The aim of this study is to develop a predictive model based on vector autoregressive moving average (VARMA) model of various orders for gender based daily COVID-19 incidence in Nigeria. This study also aims to proffer empirical evidence that compares incidence between male and female for COVID-19 risk factors.

Methods

Wilcoxon signed-rank test is employed to investigate the significance of the difference in the gender distributions of the daily incidence. A VARMA model of various orders is formulated for t

SUBMITTER: Olusola-Makinde OO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7883696 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature