Period of Measurement in Time-Series Predictions of Disease Counts from 2007 to 2017 in Northern Nevada: Analytics Experiment
| Autor: | James M. Wilson, Amir Talaei-Khoei, Seyed-Farzan Kazemi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Series (stratigraphy)
Original Paper 020205 medical informatics Computer science business.industry Autocorrelation autocorrelation Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Health Informatics Influenza a 02 engineering and technology Disease prediction public health surveillance 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Public health surveillance Analytics Statistics 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering time-series analysis 030212 general & internal medicine Time series business disease counts |
| Zdroj: | JMIR Public Health and Surveillance |
| ISSN: | 2369-2960 |
| Popis: | Background The literature in statistics presents methods by which autocorrelation can identify the best period of measurement to improve the performance of a time-series prediction. The period of measurement plays an important role in improving the performance of disease-count predictions. However, from the operational perspective in public health surveillance, there is a limitation to the length of the measurement period that can offer meaningful and valuable predictions. Objective This study aimed to establish a method that identifies the shortest period of measurement without significantly decreasing the prediction performance for time-series analysis of disease counts. Methods The data used in this evaluation include disease counts from 2007 to 2017 in northern Nevada. The disease counts for chlamydia, salmonella, respiratory syncytial virus, gonorrhea, viral meningitis, and influenza A were predicted. Results Our results showed that autocorrelation could not guarantee the best performance for prediction of disease counts. However, the proposed method with the change-point analysis suggests a period of measurement that is operationally acceptable and performance that is not significantly different from the best prediction. Conclusions The use of change-point analysis with autocorrelation provides the best and most practical period of measurement. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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