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BMC Res Notes. 2019 Jun 24;12(1):353. doi: 10.1186/s13104-019-4393-y.
[h=1]Comparative evaluation of time series models for predicting influenza outbreaks: application of influenza-like illness data from sentinel sites of healthcare centers in Iran.[/h] Tapak L[SUP]1[/SUP], Hamidi O[SUP]2[/SUP], Fathian M[SUP]3[/SUP], Karami M[SUP]4[/SUP].
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[h=3]Abstract[/h] [h=4]OBJECTIVE:[/h] Forecasting the time of future outbreaks would minimize the impact of diseases by taking preventive steps including public health messaging and raising awareness of clinicians for timely treatment and diagnosis. The present study investigated the accuracy of support vector machine, artificial neural-network, and random-forest time series models in influenza like illness (ILI) modeling and outbreaks detection. The models were applied to a data set of weekly ILI frequencies in Iran. The root mean square errors (RMSE), mean absolute errors (MAE), and intra-class correlation coefficient (ICC) statistics were employed as evaluation criteria.
[h=4]RESULTS:[/h] It was indicated that the random-forest time series model outperformed other three methods in modeling weekly ILI frequencies (RMSE = 22.78, MAE = 14.99 and ICC = 0.88 for the test set). In addition neural-network was better in outbreaks detection with total accuracy of 0.889 for the test set. The results showed that the used time series models had promising performances suggesting they could be effectively applied for predicting weekly ILI frequencies and outbreaks.
[h=4]KEYWORDS:[/h] Influenza; Neural network; Outbreak; Public health surveillance; Random Forest; Support vector machine
PMID: 31234938 DOI: 10.1186/s13104-019-4393-y
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[h=1]Comparative evaluation of time series models for predicting influenza outbreaks: application of influenza-like illness data from sentinel sites of healthcare centers in Iran.[/h] Tapak L[SUP]1[/SUP], Hamidi O[SUP]2[/SUP], Fathian M[SUP]3[/SUP], Karami M[SUP]4[/SUP].
[h=3]Author information[/h]
[h=3]Abstract[/h] [h=4]OBJECTIVE:[/h] Forecasting the time of future outbreaks would minimize the impact of diseases by taking preventive steps including public health messaging and raising awareness of clinicians for timely treatment and diagnosis. The present study investigated the accuracy of support vector machine, artificial neural-network, and random-forest time series models in influenza like illness (ILI) modeling and outbreaks detection. The models were applied to a data set of weekly ILI frequencies in Iran. The root mean square errors (RMSE), mean absolute errors (MAE), and intra-class correlation coefficient (ICC) statistics were employed as evaluation criteria.
[h=4]RESULTS:[/h] It was indicated that the random-forest time series model outperformed other three methods in modeling weekly ILI frequencies (RMSE = 22.78, MAE = 14.99 and ICC = 0.88 for the test set). In addition neural-network was better in outbreaks detection with total accuracy of 0.889 for the test set. The results showed that the used time series models had promising performances suggesting they could be effectively applied for predicting weekly ILI frequencies and outbreaks.
[h=4]KEYWORDS:[/h] Influenza; Neural network; Outbreak; Public health surveillance; Random Forest; Support vector machine
PMID: 31234938 DOI: 10.1186/s13104-019-4393-y
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