METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PREDICTING NUMBER OF SUICIDES USING SOCIAL INFORMATION

摘要

Disclosed are a method and device for predicting the number of suicides using social information to thereby predict a suicide rate with high reliability in consideration of factors relative to the actual situation by reflecting social information, such as the number of posts relevant to suicides posted by individuals on a social network service, situations of reporting suicides of famous celebrities and the like so as to model a regression analysis model and applying social indexes, such as a post index, a celebrity suicide index and the like, to the regression analysis model so as to predict the number of suicides in consideration of not only weather conditions and economic statuses which affect suicides but also the current situation in which individuals are more frequently exposed to a social atmosphere and affect each other due to the development of social media.