Table 1.
The cross-correlation analysis among the six time series variables after removing the first order autocorrelation.
Fig 1.
The trend chart for the number of news reports on COVID-19, the volume of mentions of COVID-19 and face masks on social media, and total confirmed cases worldwide and in Taiwan between December 31, 2019 and February 29, 2020.
Fig 2.
The trend chart for Google search volume for COVID-19 and face masks, and the total confirmed cases worldwide and in Taiwan between December 31, 2019 and February 29, 2020.
Fig 3.
Trends of Google search volume for face masks in Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, South Korea, and Japan.
Fig 4.
Trends of total confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, South Korea, and Japan.
Table 2.
The result of one-way analysis of variance.
Table 3.
Post hoc Scheffé test with the bootstrap method.
Table 4.
A cross-table for sample characteristics with Chi-square analysis.
Table 5.
Results of the multinomial logistic model.