LASSO-ODE: A framework for mechanistic model identifiability and selection in disease transmission modeling
To be fully useful for public health practice, models for epidemic response must be able to do more than predict -- it is also important to incorporate the mechanisms underlying transmission dynamics to enable policymakers and practitioners to be able to evaluate what-if scenarios and intervention options. However, most mechanistic models suffer from uncertainty in both the parameters (e.g., parameter unidentifiability) and the model structure itself, which can hinder both successful parameter estimation and model interpretation. To enable rapid development of interpretable and parsimonious mechanistic models, we use penalized regression and covariate selection methods to integrate parameter identifiability and model selection directly into the parameter estimation procedure for (in this case) traditional ordinary differential equation (ODE) models. For both simulated and real-world epidemiological data, we demonstrate that the LASSO-ODE framework is highly effective in selecting a parsimonious, identifiable model from larger, more realistic but potentially unidentifiable models, from realistically sparse data with only a single measured compartment and multiple latent (unobserved) variables. While we focus on epidemic models in this paper as a case study, these same approaches are applicable to a wide range of application areas that are faced with relatively sparse data but a need for realistic mechanistic models (e.g. mathematical oncology and mathematical biology more broadly). Additionally, the cross-validation techniques designed for time series data introduced in our study can be used across a range of time series analysis and modeling approaches.
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