| | Predicted |
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| | Non-High incidence year | High incidence year |
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Observed
|
Non-High
incidence year
| zeros | false alarms |
|
High
incidence year
| Misses | hits |
- Illustration of the contingency table used to evaluate the forecast models. We first transform our data and forecasts into binary time series where only two outcomes are possible, an occurrence of high incidence year or a non-occurrence, according if the log-IR of the year is greater or above the median which divides the dataset in half. We then compute a contingency table based on these two categories. The "hits" ("zeros") category represents the number of high (non-high) incidence rate that have been forecasted as so. The "false alarms" ("misses") category represents the number of non-high (high) incidence years that have been forecasted as high (non-high) incidence years.