Analysis of significant factors for dengue fever incidence prediction

Autor: Padet Siriyasatien, Katechan Jampachaisri, Kraisak Kesorn, Atchara Phumee, Phatsavee Ongruk
Jazyk: angličtina
Předmět:
0301 basic medicine
Operations research
030231 tropical medicine
030106 microbiology
Biology
Dengue virus
medicine.disease_cause
Biochemistry
Disease Outbreaks
Dengue fever
Dengue
03 medical and health sciences
symbols.namesake
0302 clinical medicine
Aedes
Prediction model
Structural Biology
Bayesian information criterion
Statistics
medicine
Animals
Humans
Poisson regression
Autoregressive integrated moving average
Molecular Biology
Forecasting model
Climate factor analysis
Incidence
Applied Mathematics
Bayes Theorem
Dengue Virus
Models
Theoretical

Thailand
biology.organism_classification
medicine.disease
Computer Science Applications
Mean absolute percentage error
Larva
Multivariate Analysis
Dengue hemorrhagic fever
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Female
Seasons
Multivariate poisson regression
Akaike information criterion
Research Article
Zdroj: BMC Bioinformatics
ISSN: 1471-2105
DOI: 10.1186/s12859-016-1034-5
Popis: Background Many popular dengue forecasting techniques have been used by several researchers to extrapolate dengue incidence rates, including the K-H model, support vector machines (SVM), and artificial neural networks (ANN). The time series analysis methodology, particularly ARIMA and SARIMA, has been increasingly applied to the field of epidemiological research for dengue fever, dengue hemorrhagic fever, and other infectious diseases. The main drawback of these methods is that they do not consider other variables that are associated with the dependent variable. Additionally, new factors correlated to the disease are needed to enhance the prediction accuracy of the model when it is applied to areas of similar climates, where weather factors such as temperature, total rainfall, and humidity are not substantially different. Such drawbacks may consequently lower the predictive power for the outbreak. Results The predictive power of the forecasting model-assessed by Akaike’s information criterion (AIC), Bayesian information criterion (BIC), and the mean absolute percentage error (MAPE)-is improved by including the new parameters for dengue outbreak prediction. This study’s selected model outperforms all three other competing models with the lowest AIC, the lowest BIC, and a small MAPE value. The exclusive use of climate factors from similar locations decreases a model’s prediction power. The multivariate Poisson regression, however, effectively forecasts even when climate variables are slightly different. Female mosquitoes and seasons were strongly correlated with dengue cases. Therefore, the dengue incidence trends provided by this model will assist the optimization of dengue prevention. Conclusions The present work demonstrates the important roles of female mosquito infection rates from the previous season and climate factors (represented as seasons) in dengue outbreaks. Incorporating these two factors in the model significantly improves the predictive power of dengue hemorrhagic fever forecasting models, as confirmed by AIC, BIC, and MAPE.
Databáze: OpenAIRE