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Journal Articles Bulletin of Mathematical Biology Year : 2023

Forecasting Pathogen Dynamics with Bayesian Model-Averaging: Application to Xylella fastidiosa

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Forecasting invasive-pathogen dynamics is paramount to anticipate eradication and containment strategies. Such predictions can be obtained using a model grounded on partial differential equations (PDE; often exploited to model invasions) and fitted to surveillance data. This framework allows the construction of phenomenological but concise models relying on mechanistic hypotheses and real observations. However, it may lead to models with overly rigid behavior and possible data-model mismatches. Hence, to avoid drawing a forecast grounded on a single PDE-based model that would be prone to errors, we propose to apply Bayesian model averaging (BMA), which allows us to account for both parameter and model uncertainties. Thus, we propose a set of different competing PDE-based models for representing the pathogen dynam- ics, we use an adaptive multiple importance sampling algorithm (AMIS) to estimate parameters of each competing model from surveillance data in a mechanistic-statistical framework, we evaluate the posterior probabilities of models by comparing different approaches proposed in the literature, and we apply BMA to draw posterior distribu- tions of parameters and a posterior forecast of the pathogen dynamics. This approach is applied to predict the extent of Xylella fastidiosa in South Corsica, France, a phy- topathogenic bacterium detected in situ in Europe less than 10 years ago (Italy 2013, France 2015). Separating data into training and validation sets, we show that the BMA forecast outperforms competing forecast approaches.
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hal-04160255 , version 1 (16-04-2024)

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Candy Abboud, Eric Parent, Olivier Bonnefon, Samuel Soubeyrand. Forecasting Pathogen Dynamics with Bayesian Model-Averaging: Application to Xylella fastidiosa. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 2023, 85 (7), pp.67. ⟨10.1007/s11538-023-01169-w⟩. ⟨hal-04160255⟩
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