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Real-Time Inferential Analytics Based on Online Databases of Trends: A Breakthrough within the Discipline of Digital Epidemiology in Dentistry and Dental Anatomy
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: Received: 8 November 2018 / Approved: 12 November 2018 / Online: 12 November 2018 (04:30:13 CET)
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: Received: 15 November 2018 / Approved: 16 November 2018 / Online: 16 November 2018 (10:34:04 CET)
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Al-Imam, A.; Khalid, U.; Al-Qaisi, S.; Al-Hadithi, N.; Kaouche, D. Real-Time Inferential Analytics Based on Online Databases of Trends: A Breakthrough within the Discipline of Digital Epidemiology in Dentistry and Dental Anatomy. Preprints2018, 2018110260. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201811.0260.v1
Al-Imam, A.; Khalid, U.; Al-Qaisi, S.; Al-Hadithi, N.; Kaouche, D. Real-Time Inferential Analytics Based on Online Databases of Trends: A Breakthrough within the Discipline of Digital Epidemiology in Dentistry and Dental Anatomy. Preprints 2018, 2018110260. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201811.0260.v1
Al-Imam, A.; Khalid, U.; Al-Qaisi, S.; Al-Hadithi, N.; Kaouche, D. Real-Time Inferential Analytics Based on Online Databases of Trends: A Breakthrough within the Discipline of Digital Epidemiology in Dentistry and Dental Anatomy. Preprints2018, 2018110260. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201811.0260.v1
APA Style
Al-Imam, A., Khalid, U., Al-Qaisi, S., Al-Hadithi, N., & Kaouche, D. (2018). <em>Real-Time Inferential Analytics Based on Online Databases of Trends: A Breakthrough within the Discipline of Digital Epidemiology in Dentistry and Dental Anatomy</em>. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201811.0260.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Al-Imam, A., Nawfal Al-Hadithi and Dawoude Kaouche. 2018 "<em>Real-Time Inferential Analytics Based on Online Databases of Trends: A Breakthrough within the Discipline of Digital Epidemiology in Dentistry and Dental Anatomy</em>" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201811.0260.v1
Abstract
BACKGROUND Epidemiological sciences have been evolving at an exponential rate paralleled only by the comparable growth within the discipline of data science. Digital epidemiological studies are playing a vital role in medical science analytics for the past few decades. To date, there are no published attempts at deploying the use of real-time analytics in connection with the disciplines of Dentistry or Medicine. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES We deployed a real-time statistical analysis in connection with topics in Dental Anatomy and Dental Pathology represented by the maxillary sinus, posterior maxillary teeth, related oral pathology. The purpose is to infer the digital epidemiology based on a continuous stream of raw data retrieved from Google Trends database. MATERIALS AND METHODS Statistical analysis was carried out via Microsoft Excel 2016 and SPSS version 24. Google Trends database was used to retrieve data for digital epidemiology. Real-time analysis and the statistical inference were based on encoding a programming script using Python high-level programming language. A systematic review of the literature was carried out via PubMed-NCBI, the Cochrane Library, and Elsevier databases. RESULTS The comprehensive review of databases of the literature, based on specific keywords search, yielded 491813 published studies. These were distributed as 488884 (PubMed-NCBI), 1611 (the Cochrane Library), and 1318 (Elsevier). However, there was no single study attempting real-time analytics. Nevertheless, we succeeded in achieving an automated real-time stream of data accompanied by a statistical inference based on data extrapolated from Google Trends. CONCLUSION Real-time analytics are of considerable impact when implemented in biological and life sciences as they will tremendously reduce the required resources for research. Predictive analytics, based on artificial neural networks and machine learning algorithms, can be the next step to be deployed in continuation of the real-time systems to prognosticate changes in the temporal trends and the digital epidemiology of phenomena of interest.
Keywords
evidence-based dentistry; public health dentistry; google trends; real-time analytics; predictive analytics
Subject
Computer Science and Mathematics, Information Systems
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