Open AccessModeling and Short-Term Forecasts of Indicators for COVID-19 Outbreak in 25 Countries at the end of March
Author(s) -
Handan Ankaralı,
Nadire Erarslan,
Özge Pasin,
Abu Kholdun Al-Mahmood
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
bangladesh journal of medical science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.255
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 2079-6854
pISSN - 2076-0299
DOI - 10.3329/bjms.v19i0.47611
Subject(s) - exponential smoothing , autoregressive integrated moving average , outbreak , covid-19 , china , demography , ranking (information retrieval) , medicine , geography , pandemic , time series , statistics , disease , mathematics , virology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , archaeology , pathology , machine learning , sociology , computer science
Objective: The coronavirus, which originated in Wuhan, causing the disease called COVID-19, spread more than 200 countries and continents end of the March. In this study, it was aimed to model the outbreak with different time series models and also predict the indicators.
Materials and Methods: The data was collected from 25 countries which have different process at least 20 days. ARIMA(p,d,q), Simple Exponential Smoothing, Holt’s Two Parameter, Brown’s Double Exponential Smoothing Models were used. The prediction and forecasting values were obtained for the countries. Trends and seasonal effects were also evaluated.
Results and Discussion: China has almost under control according to forecasting. The cumulative death prevalence in Italy and Spain will be the highest, followed by the Netherlands, France, England, China, Denmark, Belgium, Brazil and Sweden respectively as of the first week of April. The highest daily case prevalence was observed in Belgium, America, Canada, Poland, Ireland, Netherlands, France and Israel between 10% and 12%.The lowest rate was observed in China and South Korea. Turkey was one of the leading countries in terms of ranking these criteria. The prevalence of the new case and the recovered were higher in Spain than Italy.
Conclusion: More accurate predictions for the future can be obtained using time series models with a wide range of data from different countries by modelling real time and retrospective data.
Bangladesh Journal of Medical Science Vol.19(0) 2020 p.06-20