COVID-19 ARIMA Model Forecast: Confirmed, Mortality & Recovered Cases in 13 Caribbean Countries (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debjyoti Talukdar ◽  
Dr. Vrijesh Tripathi

BACKGROUND Rapid spread of SARS nCoV-2 virus in Caribbean region has prompted heightened surveillance with more than 350,000 COVID-19 confirmed cases in 13 Caribbean countries namely Antigua and Barbados, Bahamas, Barbados, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago. OBJECTIVE The aim of our study is to analyze the impact of coronavirus (SARS nCoV-2) in 13 Caribbean countries in terms of confirmed cases, number of deaths and recovered cases. Current and projected forecasts using advanced autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) models will enable local health organisations to plan future courses of action in terms of lockdown and managing essential public services. METHODS The study uses the auto regressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) model based upon time series pattern as per data retrieved from John Hopkins University, freely accessible on public domain and used for research and academic purposes. The data was analyzed using STATA 14 SE software between the time period - Jan 22, 2020 till May 27, 2020 using ARIMA time series analysis. It involves generalizing an autoregressive moving average model to better understand the data and predict future points in the time series until June 15, 2020. RESULTS The results show the predicted trend in terms of COVID-19 confirmed, mortality and recovered cases for 13 Caribbean countries. The projected ARIMA model forecast for the time period - May 25, 2020 to May 31, 2020 show 20278 (95% CI 19433.21 - 21123.08) confirmed cases, 631 (95% CI 615.90 - 646.51) deaths and 11501 (95% CI 10912.45 - 12089) recovered cases related to SARS nCoV-2 virus. The final ARIMA model chosen for confirmed COVID-19 cases, number of deaths and recovered cases are ARIMA (4,2,2), ARIMA (2,1,2) and ARIMA (4,1,2) respectively. All chosen models were compared with other models in terms of various factors like AIC/BIC (Akaike Information Criterion/Bayesian Information Criterion), log likelihood, p-value significance, coefficient < 1 and 5% significance. The autocorrelation function (ACF) and partial autocorrelation function (PACF) graphs were plotted to reduce bias and select the best fitting model. CONCLUSIONS As per the results of the forecasted COVID-19 models, there is a steady rise in terms of confirmed, recovered and mortality cases during the time period March 1, 2020 until May 27, 2020. It shows an increasing trend for confirmed and recovered COVID-19 cases and slowing of the number of mortality cases over a period of time. The predicted model will help the local health administration to devise public policies in terms of awareness measures, lockdown and essential health services accordingly.

Author(s):  
Ayob Katimon ◽  
Amat Sairin Demun

Kertas kerja ini menerangkan aplikasi kaedah permodelan (ARIMA) bagi mewakili perilaku penggunaan air di kampus Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. Menggunakan fungsi–fungsi ACF, PACF dan AIC, siri masa penggunaan air bulanan di kampus UTM boleh dinyatakan dalam model ARIMA (2,0,0). Anggaran parameter model ø1 dan ø2 ialah 0.2747 dan 0.4194. Keadaan tersebut menggambarkan bahawa penggunaan air pada bulan semasa tidak semestinya dipengaruhi dengan tepat oleh kadar penggunaan air pada bulan sebelumnya. Analisis juga menunjukkan model ARIMA (2,0,0) boleh diguna sebagai model ramalan guna air di kampus universiti. Kata kunci: Guna air, kampus universiti, siri masa, model ARIMA The paper describes the application of autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) model to represent water use behaviour at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) campus. Using autocorrelation function (ACF), partial autocorrelation function (PACF), and Akaike’s Information Criterion (AIC), monthly campus water use series can be best presented using ARIMA (2,0,0) model. The estimated parameter of the model ø1 and ø2 are 0.2747 and 0.4194 respectively. This implies that water consumption in UTM campus at the present month is not necessarily influenced by water consumption of immediate previous month. Analysis shows that ARIMA (2,0,0) model provides a reasonable forecasting tool for campus water use. Key words: Water use, university campus, time series, ARIMA model


Author(s):  
Richard McCleary ◽  
David McDowall ◽  
Bradley J. Bartos

The general AutoRegressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) model can be written as the sum of noise and exogenous components. If an exogenous impact is trivially small, the noise component can be identified with the conventional modeling strategy. If the impact is nontrivial or unknown, the sample AutoCorrelation Function (ACF) will be distorted in unknown ways. Although this problem can be solved most simply when the outcome of interest time series is long and well-behaved, these time series are unfortunately uncommon. The preferred alternative requires that the structure of the intervention is known, allowing the noise function to be identified from the residualized time series. Although few substantive theories specify the “true” structure of the intervention, most specify the dichotomous onset and duration of an impact. Chapter 5 describes this strategy for building an ARIMA intervention model and demonstrates its application to example interventions with abrupt and permanent, gradually accruing, gradually decaying, and complex impacts.


Author(s):  
Sudip Singh

India, with a population of over 1.38 billion, is facing high number of daily COVID-19 confirmed cases. In this chapter, the authors have applied ARIMA model (auto-regressive integrated moving average) to predict daily confirmed COVID-19 cases in India. Detailed univariate time series analysis was conducted on daily confirmed data from 19.03.2020 to 28.07.2020, and the predictions from the model were satisfactory with root mean square error (RSME) of 7,103. Data for this study was obtained from various reliable sources, including the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) and http://covid19india.org/. The model identified was ARIMA(1,1,1) based on time series decomposition, autocorrelation function (ACF), and partial autocorrelation function (PACF).


2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 58
Author(s):  
Lu Qin ◽  
Kyle Shanks ◽  
Glenn Allen Phillips ◽  
Daphne Bernard

The Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average model (ARIMA) is a popular time-series model used to predict future trends in economics, energy markets, and stock markets. It has not been widely applied to enrollment forecasting in higher education. The accuracy of the ARIMA model heavily relies on the length of time series. Researchers and practitioners often utilize the most recent - to -years of historical data to predict future enrollment; however, the accuracy of enrollment projection under different lengths of time series has never been investigated and compared. A simulation and an empirical study were conducted to thoroughly investigate the accuracy of ARIMA forecasting under four different lengths of time series. When the ARIMA model completely captured the historical changing trajectories, it provided the most accurate predictions of student enrollment with 20-years of historical data and had the lowest forecasting accuracy with the shortest time series. The results of this paper contribute as a reference to studies in the enrollment projection and time-series forecasting. It provides a practical impact on enrollment strategies, budges plans, and financial aid policies at colleges and institutions across countries.


Author(s):  
Arunkumar P. M. ◽  
Lakshmana Kumar Ramasamy ◽  
Amala Jayanthi M.

A novel corona virus, COVID-19 is spreading across different countries in an alarming proportion and it has become a major threat to the existence of human community. With more than eight lakh death count within a very short span of seven months, this deadly virus has affected more than 24 million people across 213 countries and territories around the world. Time-series analysis, modeling and forecasting is an important research area that explores the hidden insights from larger set of time-bound data for arriving better decisions. In this work, data analysis on COVID-19 dataset is performed by comparing the top six populated countries in the world. The data used for the evaluation is taken for a time period from 22nd January 2020 to 23rd August 2020.A novel time-series forecasting approach based on Auto-regressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) model is also proposed. The results will help the researchers from medical and scientific community to gauge the trend of the disease spread and improvise containment strategies accordingly.


The challenging endeavor of a time series forecast model is to predict the future time series data accurately. Traditionally, the fundamental forecasting model in time series analysis is the autoregressive integrated moving average model or the ARIMA model requiring a model identification of a three-component vector which are the autoregressive order, the differencing order, and the moving average order before fitting coefficients of the model via the Box-Jenkins method. A model identification is analyzed via the sample autocorrelation function and the sample partial autocorrelation function which are effective tools for identifying the ARMA order but it is quite difficult for analysts. Even though a likelihood based-method is presented to automate this process by varying the ARIMA order and choosing the best one with the smallest criteria, such as Akaike information criterion. Nevertheless the obtained ARIMA model may not pass the residual diagnostic test. This paper presents the residual neural network model, called the self-identification ResNet-ARIMA order model to automatically learn the ARIMA order from known ARIMA time series data via sample autocorrelation function, the sample partial autocorrelation function and differencing time series images. In this work, the training time series data are randomly simulated and checked for stationary and invertibility properties before they are used. The result order from the model is used to generate and fit the ARIMA model by the Box-Jenkins method for predicting future values. The whole process of the forecasting time series algorithm is called the self-identification ResNet-ARIMA algorithm. The performance of the residual neural network model is evaluated by Precision, Recall and F1-score and is compared with the likelihood basedmethod and ResNET50. In addition, the performance of the forecasting time series algorithm is applied to the real world datasets to ensure the reliability by mean absolute percentage error, symmetric mean absolute percentage error, mean absolute error and root mean square error and this algorithm is confirmed with the residual diagnostic checks by the Ljung-Box test. From the experimental results, the new methodologies of this research outperforms other models in terms of identifying the order and predicting the future values.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hasan Symum ◽  
Md. F. Islam ◽  
Habsa K. Hiya ◽  
Kh M. Ali Sagor

AbstractBackgroundCOVID-19 pandemic created an unprecedented disruption of daily life including the pattern of skin related treatments in healthcare settings by issuing stay-at-home orders and newly coronaphobia around the world.ObjectiveThis study aimed to evaluate whether there are any significant changes in population interest for skincare during the COVID-19 pandemic.MethodsFor the skincare, weekly RSV data were extracted for worldwide and 23 counties between August 1, 2016, and August 31, 2020. Interrupted time-series analysis was conducted as the quasi-experimental approach to evaluate the longitudinal effects of COVID-19 skincare related search queries. For each country, autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) model relative search volume (RSV) time series and then testing multiple periods simultaneously to examine the magnitude of the interruption. Multivariate linear regression was used to estimate the correlation between countries’ relative changes in RSV with COVID-19 confirmed cases/ per 10000 patients and lockdown measures.ResultsOut of 23 included countries in our study, 17 showed significantly increased (p<0.01) RSVs during the lockdown period compared with the ARIMA forecasted data. The highest percentage of increments occurs in May and June 2020 in most countries. There was also a significant correlation between lockdown measures and the number of COVID-19 cases with relatives changes in population interests for skincare.ConclusionUnderstanding the trend and changes in skincare public interest during COVID-19 may assist health authorities to promote accessible educational information and preventive initiatives regarding skin problems.


A novel corona virus, COVID-19 is spreading across different countries in an alarming proportion and it has become a major threat to the existence of human community. With more than eight lakh death count within a very short span of seven months, this deadly virus has affected more than 24 million people across 213 countries and territories around the world. Time-series analysis, modeling and forecasting is an important research area that explores the hidden insights from larger set of time-bound data for arriving better decisions. In this work, data analysis on COVID-19 dataset is performed by comparing the top six populated countries in the world. The data used for the evaluation is taken for a time period from 22nd January 2020 to 23rd August 2020.A novel time-series forecasting approach based on Auto-regressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) model is also proposed. The results will help the researchers from medical and scientific community to gauge the trend of the disease spread and improvise containment strategies accordingly.


Symmetry ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed Alsharif ◽  
Mohammad Younes ◽  
Jeong Kim

Forecasting solar radiation has recently become the focus of numerous researchers due to the growing interest in green energy. This study aims to develop a seasonal auto-regressive integrated moving average (SARIMA) model to predict the daily and monthly solar radiation in Seoul, South Korea based on the hourly solar radiation data obtained from the Korean Meteorological Administration over 37 years (1981–2017). The goodness of fit of the model was tested against standardized residuals, the autocorrelation function, and the partial autocorrelation function for residuals. Then, model performance was compared with Monte Carlo simulations by using root mean square errors and coefficient of determination (R2) for evaluation. In addition, forecasting was conducted by using the best models with historical data on average monthly and daily solar radiation. The contributions of this study can be summarized as follows: (i) a time series SARIMA model is implemented to forecast the daily and monthly solar radiation of Seoul, South Korea in consideration of the accuracy, suitability, adequacy, and timeliness of the collected data; (ii) the reliability, accuracy, suitability, and performance of the model are investigated relative to those of established tests, standardized residual, autocorrelation function (ACF), and partial autocorrelation function (PACF), and the results are compared with those forecasted by the Monte Carlo method; and (iii) the trend of monthly solar radiation in Seoul for the coming years is analyzed and compared on the basis of the solar radiation data obtained from KMS over 37 years. The results indicate that (1,1,2) the ARIMA model can be used to represent daily solar radiation, while the seasonal ARIMA (4,1,1) of 12 lags for both auto-regressive and moving average parts can be used to represent monthly solar radiation. According to the findings, the expected average monthly solar radiation ranges from 176 to 377 Wh/m2.


2021 ◽  
pp. 129-148
Author(s):  
Raad Mozib Lalon ◽  
Nusrat Jahan

This paper attempts to forecast the economic performance of Bangladesh measured with annual GDP data using an Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) Model followed by test of goodness of fit using AIC (Akaike Information Criterion) and BIC (Bayesian Information Criterion) index value among six ARIMA models along with several diagnostic tests such as plotting ACF (Autocorrelation Function), PACF (Partial Autocorrelation Function) and performing Unit Root Test of the Residuals estimated by the selected forecasting ARIMA model. We have found the appropriate ARIMA (1,0,1) model useful in predicting the GDP growth of Bangladesh for next couple of years adopting Box-Jenkins approach to construct the ARIMA (p,r,q) model using the GDP data of Bangladesh provided in the World Bank Data stream from 1961 to 2019. JEL classification numbers: B22, B23, C53. Keywords: GDP growth, ACF, PACF, Stationary, ARIMA (p,r,q) model, Forecasting.


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