Forecast model analysis for the morbidity of tuberculosis in Xinjiang, China

PLoS One. 2015 Mar 11;10(3):e0116832. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0116832. eCollection 2015.

Abstract

Tuberculosis is a major global public health problem, which also affects economic and social development. China has the second largest burden of tuberculosis in the world. The tuberculosis morbidity in Xinjiang is much higher than the national situation; therefore, there is an urgent need for monitoring and predicting tuberculosis morbidity so as to make the control of tuberculosis more effective. Recently, the Box-Jenkins approach, specifically the autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) model, is typically applied to predict the morbidity of infectious diseases; it can take into account changing trends, periodic changes, and random disturbances in time series. Autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity (ARCH) models are the prevalent tools used to deal with time series heteroscedasticity. In this study, based on the data of the tuberculosis morbidity from January 2004 to June 2014 in Xinjiang, we establish the single ARIMA (1, 1, 2) (1, 1, 1)12 model and the combined ARIMA (1, 1, 2) (1, 1, 1)12-ARCH (1) model, which can be used to predict the tuberculosis morbidity successfully in Xinjiang. Comparative analyses show that the combined model is more effective. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to establish the ARIMA model and ARIMA-ARCH model for prediction and monitoring the monthly morbidity of tuberculosis in Xinjiang. Based on the results of this study, the ARIMA (1, 1, 2) (1, 1, 1)12-ARCH (1) model is suggested to give tuberculosis surveillance by providing estimates on tuberculosis morbidity trends in Xinjiang, China.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • China / epidemiology
  • Humans
  • Models, Statistical*
  • Models, Theoretical
  • Morbidity
  • Public Health Surveillance
  • Tuberculosis / epidemiology*

Grants and funding

The entire study and the paper were financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of P.R. China (grant no. 11461073 and 81260410) and Academic Discipline Project of Xinjiang Medical University Health Measurements and Health Economics (grant no. XYDXK50780308) and Research and Innovation Project of Xinjiang Graduate (grant no. XJGRI2014101). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.