2 papers
stat.AP2020
Survey Data and Human Computation for Improved Flu Tracking
Stefan Wojcik, Avleen Bijral, Richard Johnston +5
While digital trace data from sources like search engines hold enormous potential for tracking and understanding human behavior, these streams of data lack information about the ac…
stat.AP2016
Predicting Unemployment Claims Using Regional and Exogenous Signals: A Sparse Modeling Approach
Avleen S. Bijral, Richard Johnston, Juan Lavista Ferres
In this paper we apply a time series based Vector Auto Regressive (VAR) approach to the problem of predicting unemployment insurance claims in different census regions of the Unite…