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. 2017 Nov 6;19(11):e370. doi: 10.2196/jmir.7486

Table 1.

Median (interquartile range), Pearson correlation coefficient (COR), root mean square error (RMSE), and mean absolute proportion error (MAPE) for RRS, RR0, RRR models, and Google Flu Trends (GFT). Results are stratified by state population size and season.


Measure

RRS, median
(interquartile range)

RR0, median
(interquartile range)

RRR, median
(interquartile range)
GFTa, median
(interquartile range)
CORb




Overall 0.85 (0.74-0.91) 0.83 (0.7-0.9) 0.86 (0.75-0.91) 0.89 (0.8-0.94)

Population size (millions)





0-2 (n=14) 0.79 (0.64-0.87) 0.76 (0.62-0.86) 0.81 (0.67-0.88) 0.83 (0.72-0.91)


2-5 (n=14) 0.84 (0.72-0.89) 0.82 (0.7-0.89) 0.84 (0.75-0.90) 0.9 (0.81-0.94)


5-7.5 (n=10) 0.84 (0.74-0.91) 0.82 (0.7-0.9) 0.86 (0.73-0.92) 0.89 (0.8-0.95)


≥7.5 (n=12) 0.91 (0.85-0.93) 0.9 (0.84-0.93) 0.91 (0.86-0.94) 0.93 (0.86-0.96)

Season





05-06 0.8 (0.62-0.85) 0.8 (0.62-0.85) 0.81 (0.64-0.87) 0.83 (0.71-0.88)


06-07 0.82 (0.65-0.88) 0.8 (0.6-0.88) 0.82 (0.71-0.89) 0.83 (0.76-0.9)


07-08 0.88 (0.81-0.92) 0.87 (0.79-0.92) 0.89 (0.82-0.93) 0.93 (0.87-0.96)


08-09 0.75 (0.69-0.83) 0.71 (0.58-0.82) 0.78 (0.67-0.83) 0.81 (0.71-0.89)


09-10 0.9 (0.85-0.93) 0.89 (0.8-0.93) 0.9 (0.85-0.93) 0.97 (0.94-0.98)


10-11 0.89 (0.82-0.92) 0.88 (0.75-0.91) 0.89 (0.85-0.92) 0.89 (0.86-0.93)
RMSEc




Overall 0.99 (0.7-1.51) 1.06 (0.73-1.56) 0.97 (0.72-1.54) 0.93 (0.66-1.33)

Population size (millions)





0-2 (n=14) 1.06 (0.69-1.58) 1.19 (0.73-1.62) 1.05 (0.72-1.6) 0.88 (0.63-1.29)


2-5 (n=14) 1.21 (0.84-1.87) 1.33 (0.92-1.81) 1.22 (0.83-1.84) 1.02 (0.78-1.52)


5-7.5 (n=10) 0.93 (0.65-1.21) 0.98 (0.72-1.33) 0.93 (0.61-1.14) 0.88 (0.67-1.48)


≥7.5 (n=12) 0.87 (0.66-1.01) 0.85 (0.70-1.08) 0.88 (0.69-1.01) 0.87 (0.63-1.16)

Season





05-06 0.93 (0.64-1.5) 0.92 (0.70-1.64) 0.93 (0.64-1.52) 0.88 (0.60-1.45)


06-07 0.84 (0.56-1.16) 0.89 (0.57-1.16) 0.85 (0.5-1.1) 0.82 (0.52-1.13)


07-08 1.08 (0.81-1.7) 1.06 (0.83-1.59) 0.99 (0.82-1.67) 1.09 (0.70-1.55)


08-09 1.02 (0.77-1.47) 1.10 (0.79-1.48) 1.03 (0.79-1.55) 1.02 (0.79-1.41)


09-10 1.31 (0.98-1.77) 1.40 (1.08-1.72) 1.28 (0.98-1.72) 1.05 (0.80-1.32)


10-11 0.77 (0.59-1.16) 0.83 (0.61-1.26) 0.83 (0.59-1.15) 0.73 (0.64-1.20)
MAPEd (/1000)




Overall 0.8 (0.43-1.75) 0.67 (0.42-1.54) 0.77 (0.43-1.62) 0.71 (0.44-1.51)

Population size (millions)





0-2 (n=14) 0.9 (0.54-1.7) 0.77 (0.51-1.41) 0.84 (0.55-1.55) 0.76 (0.51-1.56)


2-5 (n=14) 0.95 (0.48-1.79) 0.82 (0.44-1.65) 0.87 (0.45-1.71) 0.77 (0.41-1.48)


5-7.5 (n=10) 0.65 (0.36-1.62) 0.59 (0.37-1.69) 0.63 (0.35-1.57) 0.68 (0.4-1.41)


≥7.5 (n=12) 0.65 (0.34-1.64) 0.54 (0.3-1.34) 0.65 (0.33-1.5) 0.7 (0.43-1.54)

Season





05-06 1.2 (0.46-3.06) 0.78 (0.47-2.77) 0.99 (0.49-2.72) 1.07 (0.56-2.67)


06-07 0.97 (0.53-1.84) 0.92 (0.49-1.81) 0.91 (0.51-1.67) 0.88 (0.46-1.48)


07-08 0.85 (0.5-1.67) 0.83 (0.49-1.64) 0.81 (0.51-1.51) 0.76 (0.5-1.57)


08-09 0.82 (0.47-1.59) 0.67 (0.43-1.36) 0.84 (0.43-1.52) 0.71 (0.44-1.48)


09-10 0.73 (0.36-1.96) 0.64 (0.4-1.83) 0.74 (0.36-1.96) 0.63 (0.43-1.17)


10-11 0.49 (0.3-1.04) 0.48 (0.28-0.96) 0.48 (0.31-1.04) 0.61 (0.32-0.93)

aGFT: Google Flu Trends.

bCOR: Pearson correlation coefficient.

cRMSE: root mean square error.

dMAPE: mean absolute percentage error.