Abstract
Disease outbreaks are important to predict since they indicate hot spots of transmission with high risk of spread to neighboring regions and can thus guide the allocation of resources. While numeric prediction models can be easily used for outbreak prediction by setting thresholds, an alternative is to build a model that specifically classifies situations into outbreak or none. In this paper we compare Bayesian network models built for the outbreak classification problem with Bayesian network, ARIMA and ARIMAX models built for numeric prediction and used for outbreak prediction by thresholding. We show that in most cases the classification models outperform the other models. We then investigate the reasons underlying the differences in performance among the models in order to shed light on their strengths and weaknesses. The models are developed and evaluated using two years of malaria and environmental data from northern Thailand.
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This research project was supported by Faculty of Information and Communication Technology, Mahidol University. This paper is based upon work supported by the US Army International Technology Center Pacific (ITC-PAC) under contract FA5209-15-P-0183.
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Hasan, A.H.M.I., Haddawy, P., Lawpoolsri, S. (2018). A Comparative Analysis of Bayesian Network and ARIMA Approaches to Malaria Outbreak Prediction. In: Meesad, P., Sodsee, S., Unger, H. (eds) Recent Advances in Information and Communication Technology 2017. IC2IT 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 566. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60663-7_10
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