An ensemble method for early prediction of dengue outbreak

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society)

Abstract

Predicting a dengue outbreak well ahead of time is of immense importance to healthcare personnel. In this study, an ensemble method based on three different types of models has been developed. The proposed approach combines negative binomial regression, autoregressive integrated moving average model and generalized linear autoregressive moving average model through a vector autoregressive structure. Lagged values of terrain and climate covariates are used as regressors. Real-life application using data from San Juan and Iquitos shows that the proposed method usually incurs a mean absolute error of less than 10 cases when the predictions are made 8 weeks in advance. Furthermore, using model confidence set procedure, it is also shown that the proposed method always outperforms other candidate models in providing early prediction for a dengue epidemic.

Publication Date

12-7-2021

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Volume

Vol.185

Issue

Iss.1

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