支持向量机在害虫发生量预测中的应用

害虫发生量与其影响因子之间具有复杂的非线性和时滞性关系,传统方法不能很好的分析和拟合高度非线性的害虫发生量变化规律,导致预测精度不理想。为了有效构建害虫发生量与其影响因子之间复杂的非线性关系模型,提高害虫发生量预测精度,提出一种基于支持向量机的害虫发生量预测方法。该方法首先通过F测验对害虫发生量的最佳时滞阶数进行确定,并利用最佳时滞阶数对样本进行重构;然后利用前向浮动因子筛选法对害虫发生量的影响因子进行筛选,筛选出对预测结果贡献大的影响因子;最后采用10折交叉验证得到害虫发生量的最优预测模型。采用粘虫的幼虫发生密度数据在Mat-lab7.0平台下对该方法进行测试与分析,实验结果表明,相对于其它预测方法,支持向量机提高了害虫发生量的预测精度,克服了传统方法的缺陷,更适合于非线性、小样本的害虫发生量预测。     

支持向量机及组合预测在蛋白质四级结构分类中的应用

目的:基于支持向量机建立一个自动化识别新肽链四级结构的方法,提高现有方法的识别精度.方法:改进4种已有的蛋白质一级序列特征值提取方法,采用线性和非线性组合预测方法建立一个有效的组合预测模型.结果:以同源二聚体及非同源二聚体为例.对4种特征值提取方法进行改进后其分类精度均提升了2～3%;进一步实施线性与非线性组合预测后,其分类精度再次提高了2～3%,使独立测试集的分类精度达到了90%以上.结论:4种特征值提取方法均较好地反应出蛋白质一级序列包含四级结构信息,组合预测方法能有效地集多种特征值提取方法优势于一体.     

起伏型时间序列分析方法在害虫测报上的应用

介绍了起伏型时间序列（analysisforwavetypetimeseries）害虫预测方法。对安徽省凤阳县稻纵卷叶螟四（2）代蛾主峰高峰日进行建模预测,对历史资料的拟合和1989、1990两年的试报,结果令人满意。这是一种新的时间序列分析法。     

基于广义线性模型和最大熵模型的黑龙江省林火空间分布模拟

林火分布模型是在较大区域上描述林火空间分布的强有力工具,并可以确定影响林火分布的控制因子.本研究基于黑龙江省1996-2006年的历史火烧记录数据,分别采用广义线性模型和最大熵模型分析了地形、人类活动和土地覆被类型等环境控制因子对黑龙江省林火空间分布的影响,并比较了模型预测精度、评价环境变量重要性及预测火点概率分布图等.结果表明:两个模型的预测精度达中等水平,而最大熵模型的预测精度要略高于广义线性模型.总体而言,与人类活动相关的变量是林火分布模型最佳的环境变量,地形变量次之.尽管两个模型在预测精度和环境变量重要性方面都有很大的相似性,但最大熵模型产生的火点概率图空间格局与广义线性模型产生的明显不同.本研究说明,为了更加精确地确定森林火灾发生的热点地区,应该采用不同模型进行比较,或者有选择性地进行组合以产生综合的预测结果,从而为森林防火工作提供更加合理高效的建议.     

基于SVR和CAR的多维时间序列分析及其在生态学中的应用

基于支持向量回归（SVR）并融合带受控项的自回归模型（CAR）,建立了一种既反映样本集动态特征又体现环境因子影响的非线性多维时间序列分析预测方法（SVR-CAR）。用一步预测法对两个生态学样本集的预测结果表明,SVR-CAR在所有参比模型中预测精度最高,并具结构风险最小、非线性、避免过拟合、泛化推广能力优异等诸多优点。SVR-CAR在生态学、农业科学、经济学等多维时间序列预测领域有较广泛的应用前景。     

气候变化对物种分布影响模拟中的不确定性组分分割与制图——以油松为例

物种分布模型是预测评估气候变化对物种分布影响的主要工具。为了降低物种分布模型在预测过程中的不确定性,近期有学者提出了采用组合预测的新方法,即采用多套建模数据、模型技术,模型参数,以及环境情景数据对物种分布进行预测,构成物种分布预测集合。但是,组合预测中各组分对变异的贡献还知之甚少,因此有必要把变异组分来源进行分割,以更有效地利用组合预测方法来降低模型预测中的不确定性。以油松为例,采用8个生态位模型,9套模型训练数据,3个GCM模型和一个SRES(A2)排放情景,模型分析了油松当前(1961-1990年)和未来气候条件下3个时间段(2010-2039年,2040-2069年,2070-2099年)的潜在分布。共计得到当前分布预测数据72套,未来每个时间段分布数据216套。采用开发的ClimateChina软件进行当前和未来气候数据的降尺度处理。采用Kappa、真实技巧统计方法(TSS)和接收机工作特征曲线下的面积(AUC)对模型预测能力进行评估。结果表明,随机森林(RF)、广义线性模型(GLM),广义加法模型(GAM)、多元自适应样条函数(MARS)以及助推法(GBM)预测效果较好,几乎不受建模数据之间差异的影响。混合判别分析模型(MDA)对建模数据之间的差异非常敏感,甚至出现建模失败现象。采用三因素方差分析方法对组合预测中的不确定性来源进行变异分割,结果表明,模型之间的差异对模拟预测结果不确定性的贡献最大且所占比例极高,而建模数据之间的差异贡献最小,GCM贡献居中。研究将有助于加深对物种分布模拟预测中不确定性的认识。     

头孢菌素类抗生素的定量构效关系研究

目的:建立一种预测精度较高的定量构效关系(QSAR)模型,为设计和合成活性更高的头孢菌素类抗生素提供理论依据。方法:发展了一种基于支持向量回归(SVR)和k-最近邻(KNN)的非线性组合预测方法(SVR-KNN),系统研究了48种抗流感嗜血杆菌头孢菌素衍生物的QSAR。结果:留一法预测结果表明,非线性筛选描述符和子模型能明显提高预测精度,汰选子模型后的组合预测精度优于单一子模型,SVR-KNN的MSE、MAPE分别为0.019、1.81%;独立样本预测结果显示,SVR-KNN在所有参比模型中具有最优的预测精度及稳定性,其MSE、MAPE分别为0.010、1.33%。结论:SVR-KNN模型具有较强的预测能力和优异的泛化推广能力,在抗生素及其他药物的QSAR研究中有广泛应用前景。     

豚鼠脑干听觉诱发反应的分析及建模初探

本文运用系统建模的方法,在时域和频域中分析了听觉脑干诱发反应(ABR)和听觉频率跟随反应(FFR)的实验数据,讨论了此两种反应之间即相联系又相独立的关系,及两种反应对刺激信号的线性和非线性关系。用单纯型最优化方法,对其参数进行辨识,建立一个线性传递函数和非线性函数及脉冲函数组合的模型。 整个模型在计算机上进行模拟,模拟的结果与FFR和ABR记录的数据相符。     

用非线性模型估测恒温和变温下棉铃虫蛹的发育率

为了深入分析和探讨昆虫发育与环境温度的关系, 在恒温（15~37℃）和交替变温（12/18~34/40℃）下测定了棉铃虫Helicoverpa armigera蛹的发育历期(d),分别用线性模型和非线性模型（Logan模型﹑Lactin模型和王氏模型）拟合其发育率(1/d)数据。结果表明,这3个非线性模型能更准确地描述发育率与温度之间的曲线关系,判定系数（R2）在0.9878～0.9991之间。对全部观测数据的进一步研究表明,只要有6个分布合适的观测数据,就可以用这些非线性模型获得相当满意的估测效果。如果缺乏高温下的测定数据,用非线性模型预测的昆虫发育率可能失真。分析了蛹在恒温和变温下发育率差异的可能原因,讨论了应用这3个非线性模型预测蛹期发育的优点和缺点,指出用非线性模型取代线性日·度模型进行害虫发生预测和益虫饲养管理的合理性和必要性。     

基于投影寻踪理论的稻飞虱发生程度预测模型

稻飞虱发生程度与相关气候因子的数据大多具有高维非正态、非线性特征,采用统计预测法会出现预测效果的不稳定,采用人工神经网络预测模型需要较多的训练样本.投影寻踪模型把高维数据投影到低维子空间上,对数据结构进行分析,一定程度上解决了非线性、非正态问题.本文建立了浙江省新昌县单季晚稻稻飞虱主害代发生程度的投影寻踪预测模型,并与BP神经网络模型、线性回归模型的预测结果进行了对比.结果表明:投影寻踪模型优于BP神经网络模型、线性回归模型;投影寻踪模型的历史符合率和预测准确率均为100%;BP神经网络模型历史符合率达到100%,但预测偏差较大;线性回归模型历史符合率和预测偏差均较大.可见,投影寻踪模型在稻飞虱发生程度的预测上具有较好的应用前景.     

A Four-Stage Hybrid Model for Hydrological Time Series Forecasting

Hydrological time series forecasting remains a difficult task due to its complicated nonlinear, non-stationary and multi-scale characteristics. To solve this difficulty and improve the prediction accuracy, a novel four-stage hybrid model is proposed for hydrological time series forecasting based on the principle of ‘denoising, decomposition and ensemble’. The proposed model has four stages, i.e., denoising, decomposition, components prediction and ensemble. In the denoising stage, the empirical mode decomposition (EMD) method is utilized to reduce the noises in the hydrological time series. Then, an improved method of EMD, the ensemble empirical mode decomposition (EEMD), is applied to decompose the denoised series into a number of intrinsic mode function (IMF) components and one residual component. Next, the radial basis function neural network (RBFNN) is adopted to predict the trend of all of the components obtained in the decomposition stage. In the final ensemble prediction stage, the forecasting results of all of the IMF and residual components obtained in the third stage are combined to generate the final prediction results, using a linear neural network (LNN) model. For illustration and verification, six hydrological cases with different characteristics are used to test the effectiveness of the proposed model. The proposed hybrid model performs better than conventional single models, the hybrid models without denoising or decomposition and the hybrid models based on other methods, such as the wavelet analysis (WA)-based hybrid models. In addition, the denoising and decomposition strategies decrease the complexity of the series and reduce the difficulties of the forecasting. With its effective denoising and accurate decomposition ability, high prediction precision and wide applicability, the new model is very promising for complex time series forecasting. This new forecast model is an extension of nonlinear prediction models.     

A Hybrid Model for Predicting the Prevalence of Schistosomiasis in Humans of Qianjiang City,China

Backgrounds/Objective

Schistosomiasis is still a major public health problem in China, despite the fact that the government has implemented a series of strategies to prevent and control the spread of the parasitic disease. Advanced warning and reliable forecasting can help policymakers to adjust and implement strategies more effectively, which will lead to the control and elimination of schistosomiasis. Our aim is to explore the application of a hybrid forecasting model to track the trends of the prevalence of schistosomiasis in humans, which provides a methodological basis for predicting and detecting schistosomiasis infection in endemic areas.

Methods

A hybrid approach combining the autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) model and the nonlinear autoregressive neural network (NARNN) model to forecast the prevalence of schistosomiasis in the future four years. Forecasting performance was compared between the hybrid ARIMA-NARNN model, and the single ARIMA or the single NARNN model.

Results

The modelling mean square error (MSE), mean absolute error (MAE) and mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) of the ARIMA-NARNN model was 0.1869×10⁻⁴, 0.0029, 0.0419 with a corresponding testing error of 0.9375×10⁻⁴, 0.0081, 0.9064, respectively. These error values generated with the hybrid model were all lower than those obtained from the single ARIMA or NARNN model. The forecasting values were 0.75%, 0.80%, 0.76% and 0.77% in the future four years, which demonstrated a no-downward trend.

Conclusion

The hybrid model has high quality prediction accuracy in the prevalence of schistosomiasis, which provides a methodological basis for future schistosomiasis monitoring and control strategies in the study area. It is worth attempting to utilize the hybrid detection scheme in other schistosomiasis-endemic areas including other infectious diseases.     

Tea Plantation Frost Damage Early Warning Using a Two-Fold Method for Temperature Prediction

As the source and main producing area of tea in the world, China has formed unique tea culture, and achieved remarkable economic benefits. However, frequent meteorological disasters, particularly low temperature frost damage in late spring has seriously threatened the growth status of tea trees and caused quality and yield reduction of tea industry. Thus, timely and accurate early warning of frost damage occurrence in specific tea garden is very important for tea plantation management and economic values. Aiming at the problems existing in current meteorological disaster forecasting methods, such as difficulty in obtaining massive meteorological data, large amount of calculation for predicted models and incomplete information on frost damage occurrence, this paper proposed a two-fold algorithm for short-term and real-time prediction of temperature using field environmental data, and temperature trend results from a nearest local weather station for accurate frost damage occurrence level determination, so as to achieve a specific tea garden frost damage occurrence prediction in a microclimate. Time-series meteorological data collected from a small weather station was used for testing and parameterization of a two-fold method, and another dataset acquired from Tea Experimental Base of Zhejiang University was further used to validate the capability of a two-fold model for frost damage forecasting. Results showed that compared with the results of autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) and multiple linear regression (MLR), the proposed two-fold method using a second order Furrier fitting model and a K-Nearest Neighbor model (K = 3) with three days historical temperature data exhibited excellent accuracy for frost damage occurrence prediction on consideration of both model accuracy and computation (98.46% forecasted duration of frost damage, and 95.38% for forecasted temperature at the onset time). For field test in a tea garden, the proposed method accurately predicted three times frost damage occurrences, including onset time, duration and occurrence level. These results suggested the newly-proposed two-fold method was suitable for tea plantation frost damage occurrence forecasting.     

Comparison of Two Hybrid Models for Forecasting the Incidence of Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome in Jiangsu Province,China

Background

Cases of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) are widely distributed in eastern Asia, especially in China, Russia, and Korea. It is proved to be a difficult task to eliminate HFRS completely because of the diverse animal reservoirs and effects of global warming. Reliable forecasting is useful for the prevention and control of HFRS.

Methods

Two hybrid models, one composed of nonlinear autoregressive neural network (NARNN) and autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) the other composed of generalized regression neural network (GRNN) and ARIMA were constructed to predict the incidence of HFRS in the future one year. Performances of the two hybrid models were compared with ARIMA model.

Results

The ARIMA, ARIMA-NARNN ARIMA-GRNN model fitted and predicted the seasonal fluctuation well. Among the three models, the mean square error (MSE), mean absolute error (MAE) and mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) of ARIMA-NARNN hybrid model was the lowest both in modeling stage and forecasting stage. As for the ARIMA-GRNN hybrid model, the MSE, MAE and MAPE of modeling performance and the MSE and MAE of forecasting performance were less than the ARIMA model, but the MAPE of forecasting performance did not improve.

Conclusion

Developing and applying the ARIMA-NARNN hybrid model is an effective method to make us better understand the epidemic characteristics of HFRS and could be helpful to the prevention and control of HFRS.     

Application of a Hybrid Model for Predicting the Incidence of Tuberculosis in Hubei,China

Background

A prediction model for tuberculosis incidence is needed in China which may be used as a decision-supportive tool for planning health interventions and allocating health resources.

Methods

The autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) model was first constructed with the data of tuberculosis report rate in Hubei Province from Jan 2004 to Dec 2011.The data from Jan 2012 to Jun 2012 were used to validate the model. Then the generalized regression neural network (GRNN)-ARIMA combination model was established based on the constructed ARIMA model. Finally, the fitting and prediction accuracy of the two models was evaluated.

Results

A total of 465,960 cases were reported between Jan 2004 and Dec 2011 in Hubei Province. The report rate of tuberculosis was highest in 2005 (119.932 per 100,000 population) and lowest in 2010 (84.724 per 100,000 population). The time series of tuberculosis report rate show a gradual secular decline and a striking seasonal variation. The ARIMA (2, 1, 0) × (0, 1, 1)₁₂ model was selected from several plausible ARIMA models. The residual mean square error of the GRNN-ARIMA model and ARIMA model were 0.4467 and 0.6521 in training part, and 0.0958 and 0.1133 in validation part, respectively. The mean absolute error and mean absolute percentage error of the hybrid model were also less than the ARIMA model.

Discussion and Conclusions

The gradual decline in tuberculosis report rate may be attributed to the effect of intensive measures on tuberculosis. The striking seasonal variation may have resulted from several factors. We suppose that a delay in the surveillance system may also have contributed to the variation. According to the fitting and prediction accuracy, the hybrid model outperforms the traditional ARIMA model, which may facilitate the allocation of health resources in China.     

两种预测模型在地下水动态中的比较与应用

预测陕西洛惠渠灌区地下水动态变化情况,在综合分析了各种地下水动态研究方法的基础上,提出了基于支持向量机和改进的BP神经网络模型的灌区地下水动态预测方法,并在MATLAB中编制了相应的计算机程序,建立了相应的地下水动态预测模型。以灌区多年实例数据为学习样本和测试样本,比较了两种模型的地下水动态预测优劣性。研究表明,支持向量机模型和BP网络模型在样本训练学习过程中都具较高的模拟精度,而在样本学习阶段,支持向量机的预测精度明显优于BP网络,可以很好的描述地下水动态复杂的耦合关系。支持向量机方法切实可行,更加适合大型灌区地下水动态预测,是对传统地下水动态研究方法的补充与完善。     

Comparison of ARIMA and Random Forest time series models for prediction of avian influenza H5N1 outbreaks

Background

Time series models can play an important role in disease prediction. Incidence data can be used to predict the future occurrence of disease events. Developments in modeling approaches provide an opportunity to compare different time series models for predictive power.

Results

We applied ARIMA and Random Forest time series models to incidence data of outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1) in Egypt, available through the online EMPRES-I system. We found that the Random Forest model outperformed the ARIMA model in predictive ability. Furthermore, we found that the Random Forest model is effective for predicting outbreaks of H5N1 in Egypt.

Conclusions

Random Forest time series modeling provides enhanced predictive ability over existing time series models for the prediction of infectious disease outbreaks. This result, along with those showing the concordance between bird and human outbreaks (Rabinowitz et al. 2012), provides a new approach to predicting these dangerous outbreaks in bird populations based on existing, freely available data. Our analysis uncovers the time-series structure of outbreak severity for highly pathogenic avain influenza (H5N1) in Egypt.     

Forecast Model Analysis for the Morbidity of Tuberculosis in Xinjiang,China

Tuberculosis is a major global public health problem, which also affects economic and social development. China has the second largest burden of tuberculosis in the world. The tuberculosis morbidity in Xinjiang is much higher than the national situation; therefore, there is an urgent need for monitoring and predicting tuberculosis morbidity so as to make the control of tuberculosis more effective. Recently, the Box-Jenkins approach, specifically the autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) model, is typically applied to predict the morbidity of infectious diseases; it can take into account changing trends, periodic changes, and random disturbances in time series. Autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity (ARCH) models are the prevalent tools used to deal with time series heteroscedasticity. In this study, based on the data of the tuberculosis morbidity from January 2004 to June 2014 in Xinjiang, we establish the single ARIMA (1, 1, 2) (1, 1, 1)₁₂ model and the combined ARIMA (1, 1, 2) (1, 1, 1)₁₂-ARCH (1) model, which can be used to predict the tuberculosis morbidity successfully in Xinjiang. Comparative analyses show that the combined model is more effective. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to establish the ARIMA model and ARIMA-ARCH model for prediction and monitoring the monthly morbidity of tuberculosis in Xinjiang. Based on the results of this study, the ARIMA (1, 1, 2) (1, 1, 1)₁₂-ARCH (1) model is suggested to give tuberculosis surveillance by providing estimates on tuberculosis morbidity trends in Xinjiang, China.