Machine learning and dengue forecasting: Comparing random forests and artificial neural networks for predicting dengue burden at national and sub-national scales in Colombia

• Naizhuo Zhao,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Land Resource Management, School of Humanities and Law, Northeastern University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China, Division of Clinical Epidemiology, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1778-2112

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• Katia Charland,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Public Health Research, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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• Mabel Carabali,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, School of Population and Global Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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• Elaine O. Nsoesie,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Global Health, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Mathieu Maheu-Giroux,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, School of Population and Global Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Quebec Population Health Research Network, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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• Erin Rees,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Public Health Risk Sciences Division, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada

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• Mengru Yuan,

  Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, School of Population and Global Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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• Cesar Garcia Balaguera,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia, Villavicencio, Meta, Colombia

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• Gloria Jaramillo Ramirez,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia, Villavicencio, Meta, Colombia

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• Kate Zinszer

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kate.zinszer@umontreal.ca

  Affiliations Centre for Public Health Research, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Quebec Population Health Research Network, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, School of Public Health, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1388-1145

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