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ArticleHeliyon2023

Time series based road traffic accidents forecasting via SARIMA and Facebook Prophet model with potential changepoints.

Edmund F Agyemang, Joseph A Mensah, Eric Ocran, Enock Opoku, Ezekiel N N Nortey

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Article in Heliyon, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It has been retracted, and should not be counted. Cited by 6 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Edmund F AgyemangDepartment of Statistics and Actuarial Science, College of Basic and Applied Sciences, University of Ghana, Ghana.
Joseph A MensahDepartment of Computer Science, Ashesi University, No. 1 University Avenue, Berekuso, Accra, Eastern Region, Ghana.
Eric OcranDepartment of Statistics and Actuarial Science, College of Basic and Applied Sciences, University of Ghana, Ghana.
Enock OpokuDepartment of Statistics and Actuarial Science, College of Basic and Applied Sciences, University of Ghana, Ghana.
Ezekiel N N NorteyDepartment of Statistics and Actuarial Science, College of Basic and Applied Sciences, University of Ghana, Ghana.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Road traffic accident (RTA) is a critical global public health concern, particularly in developing countries. Analyzing past fatalities and predicting future trends is vital for the development of road safety policies and regulations. The main objective of this study is to assess the effectiveness of univariate Seasonal Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (SARIMA) and Facebook (FB) Prophet models, with potential change points, in handling time-series road accident data involving seasonal patterns in contrast to other statistical methods employed by key governmental agencies such as Ghana's Motor Transport and Traffic Unit (MTTU). The aforementioned models underwent training with monthly RTA data spanning from 2013 to 2018. Their predictive accuracies were then evaluated using the test set, comprising monthly RTA data from 2019. The study employed the Box-Jenkins method on the training set, yielding the development of various tentative time series models to effectively capture the patterns in the monthly RTA data.

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Facebook ProphetGhanaPotential changepointsRoad traffic accidentSARIMA

Identifiers

PMID38076174
PMCPMC10709357

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