A novel spatiotemporal method for predicting covid-19 cases
WSEAS Transactions on Mathematics
; 20:300-311, 2021.
Article
in English
| Scopus | ID: covidwho-1296410
ABSTRACT
Prediction methods are important for many applications. In particular, an accurate prediction for the total number of cases for pandemics such as the Covid-19 pandemic could help medical preparedness by providing in time a sucient supply of testing kits, hospital beds and medical personnel. This paper experimentally compares the accuracy of ten prediction methods for the cumulative number of Covid- 19 pandemic cases. These ten methods include three types of neural networks and extrapola- tion methods based on best fit quadratic, best fit cubic and Lagrange interpolation, as well as an extrapolation method proposed by the second author. We also consider the Kriging and inverse distance weighting spatial interpolation methods. We also develop a novel spatiotemporal prediction method by combining temporal and spatial prediction methods. The experiments show that among these ten prediction methods, the spatiotemporal method has the smallest root mean square error and mean absolute error on Covid-19 cumulative data for counties in New York State between May and July, 2020. © This article is published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 https//creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en_US
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Prognostic study
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English
Journal:
WSEAS Transactions on Mathematics
Year:
2021
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Article
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