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ArticleScientific reports2022

Prediction of global omicron pandemic using ARIMA, MLR, and Prophet models.

Daren Zhao, Ruihua Zhang, Huiwu Zhang, Sizhang He

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Article in Scientific reports, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11 citing papers in PubMed, 43 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Daren ZhaoDepartment of Medical Administration, Sichuan Provincial Orthopedics Hospital, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China.
Ruihua ZhangSchool of Management, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, 611130, Sichuan, China. cdzhangrh@126.com.
Huiwu ZhangDepartment of Medical Administration, Sichuan Provincial Orthopedics Hospital, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China.
Sizhang HeDepartment of Information and Statistics, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, 64600, Sichuan, China.
Sichuan Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine · CNAffiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University · CNChengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine · CN

Funding

Sichuan Provincial Hospital Management and Development Research Center SCYG 2020-24Sichuan Provincial Orthopedics Hospital 2021GL01Sichuan Provincial Primary Health Service Development Research Center SWFZ21-Q-59
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Globally, since the outbreak of the Omicron variant in November 2021, the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 has continued to increase, posing a tremendous challenge to the prevention and control of this infectious disease in many countries. The global daily confirmed cases of COVID-19 between November 1, 2021, and February 17, 2022, were used as a database for modeling, and the ARIMA, MLR, and Prophet models were developed and compared. The prediction performance was evaluated using mean absolute error (MAE), mean absolute percentage error (MAPE), and root mean square error (RMSE). The study showed that ARIMA (7, 1, 0) was the optimum model, and the MAE, MAPE, and RMSE values were lower than those of the MLR and Prophet models in terms of fitting performance and forecasting performance. The ARIMA model had superior prediction performance compared to the MLR and Prophet models. In real-world research, an appropriate prediction model should be selected based on the characteristics of the data and the sample size, which is essential for obtaining more accurate predictions of infectious disease incidence.

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COVID-19PandemicsForecastingHumansIncidenceModels, StatisticalSARS-CoV-2

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