DEVELOPMENT OF A SARIMA MODEL TO FORECAST TUBERCULOSIS DETECTION RATE IN THE DIBRUGARH DISTRICT OF ASSAM, INDIA

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Arnab Narayan Patowary
Manash Pratim Barman

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Predicting the incidence of tuberculosis (TB) plays an important role in planning health control strategies for the future, developing intervention programs and allocating resources. The techniques of time series analysis and forecasting have become a major tool in predicting different health issues. In this context, an attempt has been made to fit seasonal autoregressive integrated moving average (SARIMA) model to the historical data of quarterly TB detection rate in Dibrugarh district of India for the period of 2001-2011, a total of 44 data points. We investigated and found that ARIMA (0,0,0)×(1,1,0)4 model is suitable for the given data set.

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Arnab Narayan Patowary, College of Fisheries, Assam Agricultural University, Raha-782103, Assam, India

Assistant Professor, Statistics Department

Manash Pratim Barman, Dibrugarh University

Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics

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