Appendix

Contents:

• Additional Datasets considered
  • CDC ILINet
  • Physicians
  • Healthcare Expenditure
  • Smoking prevalence
  • Number of hours worked
  • Google Trends
• Univariate ARIMA & VAR trials
  • Motivation & Introduction
  • Univariate examples
  • VAR example: Germany and its neighbourhoods
  • VAR extension to forecasting: Germany
• Presenteeism
  • Motivation & Introduction
  • Methodology & Construction
  • Descriptive Statistical Tests
  • Time Series