Developing a dengue forecast model using machine learning: A case study in China.

• Main Authors: Pi Guo (Author), Tao Liu (Author), Qin Zhang (Author), Li Wang (Author), Jianpeng Xiao (Author), Qingying Zhang (Author), Ganfeng Luo (Author), Zhihao Li (Author), Jianfeng He (Author), Yonghui Zhang (Author), Wenjun Ma (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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In China, dengue remains an important public health issue with expanded areas and increased incidence recently. Accurate and timely forecasts of dengue incidence in China are still lacking. We aimed to use the state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms to develop an accurate predictive model of de...