On-line estimation of an optimal treatment allocation strategy for the control of white-nose syndrome in ba

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• Eric Laber (North Carolina State University)
• Friday 26 August 2016, 14:10-14:50
• Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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Co-authors: Nick J. Meyer (North Carolina State University), Brian J. Reich (North Carolina State University), Krishna Pacifici (North Carolina State University), John Drake (University of Georgia), Jaime Collazo (North Carolina State University)

Emerging infectious diseases are responsible for high morbidity and mortality, economic damages to affected countries, and are a major vulnerability for global stability. Technological advances have made it possible to collect, curate, and access large amounts of data on the progression of an infectious disease. We derive a framework for using this data in real-time to inform disease management. We formalize a treatment allocation strategy as a sequence of functions, one per treatment period, that map up-to-date information on the spread of an infectious disease to a subset of locations for treatment. An optimal allocation strategy optimizes some cumulative outcome, e.g., the number of uninfected locations, the geographic footprint of the disease, or the cost of the epidemic. Estimation of an optimal allocation strategy for an emerging infectious disease is challenging because spatial proximity induces interference among locations, the number of possible allocations is exponential in the number of locations, and because disease dynamics and intervention effectiveness are unknown at outbreak. We derive a Bayesian online estimator of the optimal allocation strategy that combines simulation-optimization with Thompson sampling. The proposed estimator performs favorably in simulation experiments. This work is motivated by and illustrated using data on the spread of white-nose syndrome a highly fatal infectious disease devastating bat populations in North America.

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