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ArticleScientific reports2018

Temporal trends analysis of human brucellosis incidence in mainland China from 2004 to 2018.

Yongbin Wang, Chunjie Xu, Shengkui Zhang, Zhende Wang, Ying Zhu, Juxiang Yuan

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Article in Scientific reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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35 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 56 citations in OpenAlex.

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Yongbin WangSchool of Public Health, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan, Hebei Province, P. R. China.
Chunjie XuSchool of Public Health, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100069, P. R. China.
Shengkui ZhangSchool of Public Health, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan, Hebei Province, P. R. China.
Zhende WangSchool of Public Health, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan, Hebei Province, P. R. China.
Ying ZhuSchool of Public Health, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan, Hebei Province, P. R. China.
Juxiang YuanSchool of Public Health, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan, Hebei Province, P. R. China. yuanjx@ncst.edu.cn.
North China University of Science and Technology · CNCapital Medical University · CN

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

With the re-emergence of brucellosis in mainland China since the mid-1990s, an increasing threat to public health tends to become even more violent, advanced warning plays a pivotal role in the control of brucellosis. However, a model integrating the autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) with Error-Trend-Seasonal (ETS) methods remains unexplored in the epidemiological prediction. The hybrid ARIMA-ETS model based on discrete wavelet transform was hence constructed to assess the epidemics of human brucellosis from January 2004 to February 2018 in mainland China. The preferred hybrid model including the best-performing ARIMA method for approximation-forecasting and the best-fitting ETS approach for detail-forecasting is evidently superior to the standard ARIMA and ETS techniques in both three in-sample simulating and out-of-sample forecasting horizons in terms of the minimum performance indices of the root mean square error, mean absolute error, mean error rate and mean absolute percentage error. Whereafter, an ahead prediction from March to December in 2018 displays a dropping trend compared to the preceding years. But being still present, in various trends, in the present or future. This hybrid model can be highlighted in predicting the temporal trends of human brucellosis, which may act as the potential for far-reaching implications for prevention and control of this disease.

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BrucellosisChinaForecastingHumansIncidenceModels, StatisticalPublic HealthSeasons

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