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Description

The burden of asthma is a major public health issue, and of a wider interest particularly to public health practitioners, health care providers and policy makers, as well as researchers. The literature on forecasting of adverse respiratory health events like asthma attacks is limited. It is an unclear field; and there is a need for more research on the forecasting of the demand for hospital respiratory services.

Objective

This paper describes a framework for creating a time series data set with daily asthma admissions, weather and air quality factors; and then generating suitable lags for predictive multivariate quantile regression models (QRMs). It also demonstrates the use of root mean square error (RMSE) and receiver operating characteristic (ROC) error measures in selecting suitable predictive models.

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