Forecasting mortality using Google trend
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United State possesses the largest economy in the world, and thus serves as an ideal representation to investigate the motility model for the developed country. Early surveillance of the causes of death is critical which can allow the preparation of preventive steps against critical disease such as dengue fever. Studies reported that some search queries, especially those diseases related terms on Google Trends are essential. To this end, we include either main cause of death or the extended or the more general terminologies from Google Trends to decode the mortality related terms using the Wiener Cascade Model. Using time series and Wavelet scalogram of search terms, the patterns of search queries are categorized into different levels of periodicity. The results include (1) the decoding trend, (2) the features importance, and (3) the accuracy of the decoding patterns. Three scenarios regard predictors include the use of (1) all 19 features, (2) the top ten most periodic predictors, or (3) the ten predictors with highest weighting. All search queries spans from December 2013 - December 2018. The results show that search terms with either higher weight and annual periodic pattern contribute more in forecasting the word die; however, only predictors with higher weight are valuable to forecast the word death.
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