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Toward a Reliable Evaluation of Forecasting Systems for Plant Diseases: A Case Study Using Fusarium Head Blight of Wheat

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PLANT DISEASE
卷 96, 期 6, 页码 889-896

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AMER PHYTOPATHOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1094/PDIS-08-11-0665

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  1. Flemish Institute for the Stimulation of Scientific Technological Research in Industry [70575]

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Landschoot, S., Waegeman, W., Audenaert, K., Vandepitte, J., Haesaert, G., and De Baets, B. 2012. Toward a reliable evaluation of forecasting systems for plant diseases: A case study using Fusarium head blight of wheat. Plant Dis. 96:889-896. Despite great efforts to forecast plant diseases, many of the existing systems often fall short in providing farmers with accurate predictions. One of the main problems arises from the existence of year and location effects, so that more advanced procedures are required for evaluating existing systems in an unbiased manner. This paper illustrates the case of Fusarium head blight of winter wheat in Belgium. We present a new cross-validation strategy that enables the evaluation of the predictive performance of a forecasting system for years and locations that are different from the years and locations on which the forecast was developed. Four different cross-validation strategies and five regression techniques are used. The results demonstrated that traditional evaluation strategies are too optimistic in their predictions, whereas the cross-year cross-location validation strategy yielded more realistic outcomes. Using this procedure, the mean squared error increased and the coefficient of determination decreased in predicting disease severity and deoxynivalenol content, suggesting that existing evaluation strategies may generate a substantial optimistic bias. The strongest discrepancies between the cross-validation strategies were observed for multiple linear regression models.

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