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    • Public Health

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    • Hybrid mechanistic-statistical models are used for short-term epidemic forecasting.
    • Their accuracy is debated regarding biological complexity versus data assimilation.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To evaluate if historical data training and emergency department (ED) visit data improve influenza hospital admission forecasts more than increased biological complexity.
    • To assess the impact of data richness versus biological fidelity on forecast accuracy.

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    • Utilized eight retrospective influenza seasons in North Carolina.
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    • Compared forecast accuracy with and without added biological complexity (multi-subtype structure, cross-season immunity).

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    • Hierarchical Bayesian training improved accuracy by 22.4%.
    • Incorporating ED visit data provided an additional 5.3% improvement.
    • Increased biological complexity yielded minimal or no gains.
    • ED data partially compensated for missing biological structure.

    Conclusions:

    • Short-term epidemic forecast accuracy is primarily driven by historical data learning and auxiliary signal assimilation, not biological complexity.
    • Findings suggest prioritizing data integration over intricate biological models for improved forecasting.
    • A simplified model variant demonstrated robustness in real-time forecasting challenges.