Retraction notice to "Time series based road traffic accidents forecasting via SARIMA and Facebook Prophet model with potential changepoints"(Heliyon, (2023), 9, 12, (e22544), (S2405844023097529), 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e22544)

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier policy on article withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies-and-standards/article-withdrawal). This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor. Post-publication, an investigation conducted by Elsevier's Research Integrity & Publishing Ethics team on behalf of the journal identified references that are irrelevant to the article. The authors were asked to comment upon the presence of these references in their work but were unable to satisfactorily address the reason for the references. Furthermore, it has been determined that the authors were requested by three of the reviewers to insert redundant references to their paper during the peer-review process. Consequently, the editor has lost confidence in the integrity of the article and has determined it should be retracted. The scientific community takes a very strong view on this matter and apologies are offered to readers of the journal that this was not detected during the submission process. The authors disagree with the retraction and dispute the grounds for it.