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[Dennis Banga <dennisbanga@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks all for your responses. You have opened up my options on tackling
the issue. I will engage the team in the course of my research to build an
inbuilt prediction module.

*Regards,*
*Dennis*


On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Jason Pickering <
jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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>>
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