Forecasting influenza in Hong Kong with Google search queries and statistical model fusion

• Qinneng Xu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Qinneng Xu, Yulia R. Gel

  * E-mail: qinnengxu3-c@my.cityu.edu.hk

  Affiliation City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

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• Yulia R. Gel ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Qinneng Xu, Yulia R. Gel

  Affiliation University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, United States of America

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• L. Leticia Ramirez Ramirez ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas, Mexico City, Mexico

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• Kusha Nezafati ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, United States of America

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• Qingpeng Zhang ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

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• Kwok-Leung Tsui

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

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