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Testing Statistical Models for forecasting Malaria Cases in India


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Malaria is still a big problem for a country like India especially with a huge number of slums and poor people having substandard living habits. The present study was conducted on the basis of secondary data available for malaria cases for the period of 1995 to 2011 to find out the trend for number of malaria cases in India and to forecast such cases for future periods. A number of time series models were created from the available data using the SAS software like linear trend, random walk with drift, simple exponential smoothing, log linear and finally the ARIMA models. The most suitable model was found to be the Log linear model with minimum MSE, RMSE and MSPE of 114402.9, 144675.8 and 5.59744, respectively. The forecast for number of malaria cases in India shown a decrease trend from 1122324 cases in the year 2015 to 778868 in the year 2023.

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Malaria, ARIMA, ACF, PACF, Log Linear Model, AIC, SBIC.
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Authors

Manish Kr. Sharma
Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Jammu, Jammu (J&K), India
Pawan Kr. Sharma
Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Jammu, Jammu (J&K), India
Banti Kumar
Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Jammu, Jammu (J&K), India
Sunali Mahajan
Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Jammu, Jammu (J&K), India
Archana
Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Jammu, Jammu (J&K), India

Abstract


Malaria is still a big problem for a country like India especially with a huge number of slums and poor people having substandard living habits. The present study was conducted on the basis of secondary data available for malaria cases for the period of 1995 to 2011 to find out the trend for number of malaria cases in India and to forecast such cases for future periods. A number of time series models were created from the available data using the SAS software like linear trend, random walk with drift, simple exponential smoothing, log linear and finally the ARIMA models. The most suitable model was found to be the Log linear model with minimum MSE, RMSE and MSPE of 114402.9, 144675.8 and 5.59744, respectively. The forecast for number of malaria cases in India shown a decrease trend from 1122324 cases in the year 2015 to 778868 in the year 2023.

Keywords


Malaria, ARIMA, ACF, PACF, Log Linear Model, AIC, SBIC.

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