The main determinants of COVID-19 spread in Italy are investigated, in this work, by means of a D-vine copula based quantile regression. The outcome is the COVID-19 cumulative infection rate registered on October 30th 2020, with reference to the 107 Italian provinces, and it is regressed on some covariates of interest accounting for medical, environmental and demographic factors. To deal with the issue of spatial autocorrelation, the D-vine copula based quantile regression also embeds a spatial autoregressive component that controls for the extent of spatial dependence. The use of vine copula enhances model flexibility accounting for non-linear relationships and tail dependencies. Moreover, the model selection procedure leads to parsimonious models providing a rank of covariates based on their explanatory power with respect to the outcome.

A D-vine copula-based quantile regression model with spatial dependence for COVID-19 infection rate in Italy / D’Urso, Pierpaolo; De Giovanni, Livia; Vitale, Vincenzina. - In: SPATIAL STATISTICS. - ISSN 2211-6753. - 47:(2022), p. 100586. [10.1016/j.spasta.2021.100586]

A D-vine copula-based quantile regression model with spatial dependence for COVID-19 infection rate in Italy

D’Urso, Pierpaolo;Vitale, Vincenzina
2022

Abstract

The main determinants of COVID-19 spread in Italy are investigated, in this work, by means of a D-vine copula based quantile regression. The outcome is the COVID-19 cumulative infection rate registered on October 30th 2020, with reference to the 107 Italian provinces, and it is regressed on some covariates of interest accounting for medical, environmental and demographic factors. To deal with the issue of spatial autocorrelation, the D-vine copula based quantile regression also embeds a spatial autoregressive component that controls for the extent of spatial dependence. The use of vine copula enhances model flexibility accounting for non-linear relationships and tail dependencies. Moreover, the model selection procedure leads to parsimonious models providing a rank of covariates based on their explanatory power with respect to the outcome.
2022
D-vineCopula quantile regressionCOVID-19 Italian dataSpatial dependence
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A D-vine copula-based quantile regression model with spatial dependence for COVID-19 infection rate in Italy / D’Urso, Pierpaolo; De Giovanni, Livia; Vitale, Vincenzina. - In: SPATIAL STATISTICS. - ISSN 2211-6753. - 47:(2022), p. 100586. [10.1016/j.spasta.2021.100586]
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