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Causality Analysis for COVID-19 among Countries Using Effective Transfer Entropy.

ABSTRACT: In this study, causalities of COVID-19 across a group of seventy countries are analyzed with effective transfer entropy. To reveal the causalities, a weighted directed network is constructed. In this network, the weights of the links reveal the strength of the causality which is obtained by calculating effective transfer entropies. Transfer entropy has some advantages over other causality evaluation methods. Firstly, transfer entropy can quantify the strength of the causality and secondly it can detect nonlinear causal relationships. After the construction of the causality network, it is analyzed with well-known network analysis methods such as eigenvector centrality, PageRank, and community detection. Eigenvector centrality and PageRank metrics reveal the importance and the centrality of each node country in the network. In community detection, node countries in the network are divided into groups such that countries in each group are much more densely connected.

SUBMITTER: Unal B

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9407067 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Causality Analysis for COVID-19 among Countries Using Effective Transfer Entropy.

Ünal Baki B

Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) 20220813 8

In this study, causalities of COVID-19 across a group of seventy countries are analyzed with effective transfer entropy. To reveal the causalities, a weighted directed network is constructed. In this network, the weights of the links reveal the strength of the causality which is obtained by calculating effective transfer entropies. Transfer entropy has some advantages over other causality evaluation methods. Firstly, transfer entropy can quantify the strength of the causality and secondly it can ...[more]

PMID: 36010779

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Causality Analysis for COVID-19 among Countries Using Effective Transfer Entropy.

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