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[Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Dennis and Alex,

Yes, there are many ways in which the data could be predicted with tools
such as R or Python, even Excel. The problem of course is what model you
choose to use. If we had a good way to predict routine health information
from historical data, there would be little need for DHIS2, as we could
simply predict it! There are many external tools which could help you to do
this, and there is nothing in the DHIS2 core which would allow you to do
this, but if you have a good model, then R is a pretty good tool to use for
this type of stuff.

For simple cases, like extrapolation  of population data, it should be
pretty forward. For other things, like prediction of the number of malaria
cases in a given district, a very good predictive model would be needed. It
would be good to know the details of your intended modelling approach, so
we could document it.

There are some trivial examples here
<https://www.dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/developer/html/apa.html> and feel
free to post more specific questions about how you might be able to achieve
this.

Regards,
Jason


On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Alex Tumwesigye <atumwesigye@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Dear Dennis,
>
> DHIS2 allows you to use R and then do you predictions. There are some
> documentation of how to have it connected to DHIS2.
>
> There is also a possibility to use Octave - the opensource version of
> MATLAB to do your predictions if you are familiar with MATLAB.
>
> Alex
>
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 7:48 AM, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hello Dennis,
>>
>> We don't really have a dedicated prediction module, though there are some
>> functions like regression that can be used for extrapolations. Perhaps you
>> could describe in a bit more detail what your needs are? Do you know of
>> another software package which has this type of functionality?
>>
>> Knut
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 3:23 AM, Dennis Banga <dennisbanga@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey Team,
>>>
>>> I would like to know whether in DHIS2 there is an inbuilt prediction
>>> module that can forecast data values of a particular dataset based on past
>>> data values.
>>> I would be grateful for your response.
>>>
>>>
>>> *Kind Regards,*
>>> *Dennis.*
>>>
>>>
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