Trend analysis and forecast of daily reported incidence of hand, foot and mouth disease in Hubei, China by Prophet model.

ABSTRACT: Hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) is common among children below 5 years. HFMD has a high incidence in Hubei Province, China. In this study, the Prophet model was used to forecast the incidence of HFMD in comparison with the autoregressive-integrated moving average (ARIMA) model, and HFMD incidence was decomposed into trends, yearly, weekly seasonality and holiday effect. The Prophet model fitted better than the ARIMA model in daily reported incidence of HFMD. The HFMD incidence forecast by the Prophet model showed that two peaks occurred in 2019, with the higher peak in May and the lower peak in December. Periodically changing patterns of HFMD incidence were observed after decomposing the time-series into its major components. In specific, multi-year variability of HFMD incidence was f

SUBMITTER: Xie C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7809027 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature