Applying Machine Learning and AI Explanations to Analyze Vaccine Hesitancy

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2201.05070v1
• Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2022 22:50:17 GMT
• Title: Applying Machine Learning and AI Explanations to Analyze Vaccine Hesitancy
• Authors: Carsten Lange, Jian Lange
• Abstract summary: The paper quantifies the impact of race, poverty, politics, and age on vaccination rates in U.S. counties. It is apparent that the influence of impact factors is not universally the same across different geographies.
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• Abstract: The paper quantifies the impact of race, poverty, politics, and age on COVID-19 vaccination rates in counties in the continental US. Both, OLS regression analysis and Random Forest machine learning algorithms are applied to quantify factors for county-level vaccination hesitancy. The machine learning model considers joint effects of variables (race/ethnicity, partisanship, age, etc.) simultaneously to capture the unique combination of these factors on the vaccination rate. By implementing a state-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence Explanations (AIX) algorithm, it is possible to solve the black box problem with machine learning models and provide answers to the "how much" question for each measured impact factor in every county. For most counties, a higher percentage vote for Republicans, a greater African American population share, and a higher poverty rate lower the vaccination rate. While a higher Asian population share increases the predicted vaccination rate. The impact on the vaccination rate from the Hispanic population proportion is positive in the OLS model, but only positive for counties with a high Hispanic population (>65%) in the Random Forest model. Both the proportion of seniors and the one for young people in a county have a significant impact in the OLS model - positive and negative, respectively. In contrast, the impacts are ambiguous in the Random Forest model. Because results vary between geographies and since the AIX algorithm is able to quantify vaccine impacts individually for each county, this research can be tailored to local communities. An interactive online mapping dashboard that identifies impact factors for individual U.S. counties is available at https://www.cpp.edu/~clange/vacmap.html. It is apparent that the influence of impact factors is not universally the same across different geographies.

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