scholarly journals A hybrid of artificial fneural network, exponential smoothing, and ARIMA models for COVID-19 time series forecasting

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-35
Author(s):  
Samir K. Safi ◽  
Olajide Idris Sanusi
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Moving Average ◽  
Arima Model ◽  
Absolute Error ◽  
Time Series Forecasting ◽  
Arima Models ◽  
Artificial Neural Network Ann ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
Two Stages ◽  
Second Wave

The Auto Regressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) model seems not to easily capture the nonlinear patterns exhibited by the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in terms of daily confirmed cases. As a result, Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and Error, Trend, and Seasonality (ETS) modeling have been successfully applied to resolve problems with nonlinear estimation. Our research suggests that it would be ideal to use a single model of ETS or ARIMA for COVID-19 time series forecasting rather than a complicated Hybrid model that combines several models. We compare the forecasting performance of these models using real, worldwide, daily COVID-19 data for the period between January 22, 2020 till June 19, and June 20 till January 2, 2021 which marks two stages, each stage indicating the first and the second wave respectively. We discuss various forecasting approaches and the criteria for choosing the best forecasting technique. The best forecasting model selected was compared using the forecasting assessment criterion known as Mean Absolute Error (MAE). The empirical results show that the ETS and ARIMA models outperform the ANN and Hybrid models. The main finding from the ETS and ARIMA models analysis indicate that the magnitude of the increase in total confirmed cases over time is declining and the percentage change in the death rate is also on the decline. Our results shows that the chosen forecaste models are consistent during the first and second wave of of the pandemic. These forecasts are encouraging as the world struggles to contain the spread of COVID-19. This may be the result of the social distancing measures mandated by governments worldwide.

scholarly journals Estimating COVID-19 cases in Makkah region of Saudi Arabia: Space-time ARIMA modeling

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. e0250149
Author(s):  
Fuad A. Awwad ◽  
Moataz A. Mohamoud ◽  
Mohamed R. Abonazel
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Moving Average ◽  
Arima Model ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
World Health ◽  
Arima Models ◽  
Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average ◽  
First Case ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
The Impact

The novel coronavirus COVID-19 is spreading across the globe. By 30 Sep 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the number of cases worldwide had reached 34 million with more than one million deaths. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) registered the first case of COVID-19 on 2 Mar 2020. Since then, the number of infections has been increasing gradually on a daily basis. On 20 Sep 2020, the KSA reported 334,605 cases, with 319,154 recoveries and 4,768 deaths. The KSA has taken several measures to control the spread of COVID-19, especially during the Umrah and Hajj events of 1441, including stopping Umrah and performing this year’s Hajj in reduced numbers from within the Kingdom, and imposing a curfew on the cities of the Kingdom from 23 Mar to 28 May 2020. In this article, two statistical models were used to measure the impact of the curfew on the spread of COVID-19 in KSA. The two models are Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) model and Spatial Time-Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (STARIMA) model. We used the data obtained from 31 May to 11 October 2020 to assess the model of STARIMA for the COVID-19 confirmation cases in (Makkah, Jeddah, and Taif) in KSA. The results show that STARIMA models are more reliable in forecasting future epidemics of COVID-19 than ARIMA models. We demonstrated the preference of STARIMA models over ARIMA models during the period in which the curfew was lifted.

Hybrid Neural Models For Rice Yields Times Forecasting

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruhaidah Samsudin ◽  
Puteh Saad ◽  
Ani Shabri
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Hybrid Model ◽  
Moving Average ◽  
Time Series Prediction ◽  
Arima Model ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Ann Model ◽  
Yield Data ◽  
Rice Yields ◽  
Artificial Neural Network Ann

In this paper, time series prediction is considered as a problem of missing value. A model for the determination of the missing time series value is presented. The hybrid model integrating autoregressive intergrated moving average (ARIMA) and artificial neural network (ANN) model is developed to solve this problem. The developed models attempts to incorporate the linear characteristics of an ARIMA model and nonlinear patterns of ANN to create a hybrid model. In this study, time series modeling of rice yield data in Muda Irrigation area. Malaysia from 1995 to 2003 are considered. Experimental results with rice yields data sets indicate that the hybrid model improve the forecasting performance by either of the models used separately. Key words: ARIMA; Box and Jenkins; neural networks; rice yields; hybrid ANN model

The Forecasting of the Elevator Traffic Flow Time Series Based on ARIMA and GP

2012 ◽  
Vol 588-589 ◽  
pp. 1466-1471 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Fang Li ◽  
Qun Zong
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Traffic Flow ◽  
Linear Models ◽  
Moving Average ◽  
Arima Model ◽  
Flow Time ◽  
Forecasting Model ◽  
Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average ◽  
Hybrid Forecasting ◽  
Artificial Neural Network Ann

As one of the conventional statistical methods, the autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) model has been one of the most widely used linear models in time series forecasting. However, the ARIMA model cannot easily capture the nonlinear patterns. Artificial neural network (ANN) can be utilized to construct more accurate forecasting model than ARIMA for nonlinear time series, but it is difficult to explain the meaning of the hidden layers of ANN and it does not produce a mathematical equation. In this study, by combining ARIMA with genetic programming (GP), a hybrid forecasting model will be used for elevator traffic flow time series which can improve the accuracy both the GP and the ARIMA forecasting models separately. At last, simulations are adopted to demonstrate the advantages of the proposed ARIMA-GP forecasting model.

scholarly journals Modelling New Zealand Road Deaths

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 4-15
Author(s):  
Colin Morrison ◽  
Ernest Albuquerque
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Moving Average ◽  
Arima Model ◽  
Time Series Forecasting ◽  
Time Data ◽  
Baseline Model ◽  
Explanatory Variables ◽  
Distributed Lag ◽  
Autoregressive Distributed Lag

New Zealand is developing an integrated road safety intervention logic model. This paper describes a core component of this wider strategic research carried out in 2018: a baseline model that extrapolates New Zealand road deaths to 2025. The baseline will provide context to what Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency is trying to achieve. It offers a way of understanding what impact interventions have in acting with and against external influences affecting road deaths and serious trauma. The baseline model considers autonomous change at a macro level given social and economic factors that influence road deaths. Identifying and testing relationships and modelling these explanatory variables clarifies the effect of interventions. Time-series forecasting begins by carefully collecting and rigorously analysing sequences of discrete-time data, then developing an appropriate model to describe the inherent structure of the series. Successful time-series forecasting depends on fitting an appropriate model to the underlying time-series. Several time-series models were investigated in understanding road deaths in the New Zealand context. In the final modelling an autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) model and two differing autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) models were developed. A preferred model was identified. This ARDL model was used to project road deaths to 2025.

scholarly journals Wavelet Transform and Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average Combination Approach in Crude Oil Prices Forecasting

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nurull Qurraisha Nadiyya Md-Khair ◽  
Ruhaidah Samsudin ◽  
Ani Shabri
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Wavelet Transform ◽  
Crude Oil ◽  
Moving Average ◽  
Absolute Error ◽  
Time Series Forecasting ◽  
Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average ◽  
Spot Prices ◽  
Crude Oil Prices ◽  
Combination Approach

This paper proposes a time series forecasting approach combining wavelet transform and autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) to enhance the precision in forecasting crude oil spot prices series. Wavelet transform splits the original prices series into several subseries, then the most appropriate model of ARIMA is established to predict each respective series and finally all series are combined back to get the original series. The datasets for the experiment consist of crude oil spot prices from Brent North Sea (Brent) and West Texas Intermediate (WTI). Single forecasting model ARIMA and several existing forecasting approaches in the literatures are used to measure the performance of the proposed approach by utilizing the Mean Absolute Error (MAE) and Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) collected. Final results have depicted that the proposed approach outperforms other approaches with smaller MAE and RMSE values. Ultimately, it is proven that data decomposition, combined with forecasting method can increase the accuracy in time series forecasting.

scholarly journals Time Series Analysis and Forecasting of Oilseeds Production in India: Using Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average and Group Method of Data Handling – Neural Network

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debasis Mithiya ◽  
Lakshmikanta Datta ◽  
Kumarjit Mandal
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Moving Average ◽  
Arima Model ◽  
Time Series Forecasting ◽  
Series Data ◽  
Percentage Error ◽  
Group Method ◽  
Data Handling ◽  
Agricultural Economy ◽  
Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average

Oilseeds have been the backbone of India’s agricultural economy since long. Oilseed crops play the second most important role in Indian agricultural economy, next to food grains, in terms of area and production. Oilseeds production in India has increased with time, however, the increasing demand for edible oils necessitated the imports in large quantities, leading to a substantial drain of foreign exchange. The need for addressing this deficit motivated a systematic study of the oilseeds economy to formulate appropriate strategies to bridge the demand-supply gap. In this study, an effort is made to forecast oilseeds production by using Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) model, which is the most widely used model for forecasting time series. One of the main drawbacks of this model is the presumption of linearity. The Group Method of Data Handling (GMDH) model has also been applied for forecasting the oilseeds production because it contains nonlinear patterns. Both ARIMA and GMDH are mathematical models well-known for time series forecasting. The results obtained by the GMDH are compared with the results of ARIMA model. The comparison of modeling results shows that the GMDH model perform better than the ARIMA model in terms of mean absolute error (MAE), mean absolute percentage error (MAPE), and root mean square error (RMSE). The experimental results of both models indicate that the GMDH model is a powerful tool to handle the time series data and it provides a promising technique in time series forecasting methods.

scholarly journals Time-Series Forecasting and Analysis of COVID-19 Outbreak in Highly Populated Countries

2022 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Arunkumar P. M. ◽  
Lakshmana Kumar Ramasamy ◽  
Amala Jayanthi M.
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Moving Average ◽  
Arima Model ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Time Series Forecasting ◽  
Disease Spread ◽  
Time Period ◽  
The World ◽  
Auto Regressive ◽  
Important Research Area

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.

scholarly journals Forecasting incidence of tuberculosis cases in Brazil based on various univariate time-series models

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (10) ◽  
pp. 894-909
Author(s):  
Rhuan Carlos Martins Ribeiro ◽  
Thaynara Araújo Quadros ◽  
John Jairo Saldarriaga Ausique ◽  
Otavio Andre Chase ◽  
Pedro Silvestre da Silva Campos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Time Series ◽  
Mean Square Error ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Moving Average ◽  
Arima Model ◽  
Public Health Problem ◽  
Absolute Error ◽  
Exponential Smoothing ◽  
Mean Square

Tuberculosis (TB) remains the world's deadliest infectious disease and is a serious public health problem. Control for this disease still presents several difficulties, requiring strategies for the execution of immediate combat and intervention actions. Given that changes through the decision-making process are guided by current information and future prognoses, it is critical that a country's public health managers rely on accurate predictions that can detect the evolving incidence phenomena. of TB. Thus, this study aims to analyze the accuracy of predictions of three univariate models based on time series of diagnosed TB cases in Brazil, from January 2001 to June 2018, in order to establish which model presents better performance. For the second half of 2018. From this, data were collected from the Department of Informatics of the Unified Health System (DATASUS), which were submitted to the methods of Simple Exponential Smoothing (SES), Holt-Winters Exponential Smoothing (HWES) and the Integrated Autoregressive Moving Average (ARIMA) model. In the performance analysis and model selection, six criteria based on precision errors were established: Mean Square Error (MSE), Root Mean Square Error (RMSE), Mean Absolute Error (MAE), Mean Absolute Percent Error (MAPE) and Theil's U statistic (U1 and U2). According to the results obtained, the HWES (0.2, 0.1, 0.1) presented a high performance in relation to the error metrics, consisting of the best model compared to the other two methodologies compared here.

Time-series forecasting and analysis of COVID-19 outbreak in highly populated countries- A data-driven approach

2022 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Moving Average ◽  
Arima Model ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Time Series Forecasting ◽  
Disease Spread ◽  
Time Period ◽  
The World ◽  
Data Driven Approach ◽  
Important Research Area

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.

scholarly journals Smoothing Strategies Combined with ARIMA and Neural Networks to Improve the Forecasting of Traffic Accidents

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lida Barba ◽  
Nibaldo Rodríguez ◽  
Cecilia Montt
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Time Series ◽  
Traffic Accidents ◽  
Learning Algorithm ◽  
Moving Average ◽  
Arima Model ◽  
Hankel Matrix ◽  
One Step ◽  
Value Decomposition ◽  
Two Stages

Two smoothing strategies combined with autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) and autoregressive neural networks (ANNs) models to improve the forecasting of time series are presented. The strategy of forecasting is implemented using two stages. In the first stage the time series is smoothed using either, 3-point moving average smoothing, or singular value Decomposition of the Hankel matrix (HSVD). In the second stage, an ARIMA model and two ANNs for one-step-ahead time series forecasting are used. The coefficients of the first ANN are estimated through the particle swarm optimization (PSO) learning algorithm, while the coefficients of the second ANN are estimated with the resilient backpropagation (RPROP) learning algorithm. The proposed models are evaluated using a weekly time series of traffic accidents of Valparaíso, Chilean region, from 2003 to 2012. The best result is given by the combination HSVD-ARIMA, with a MAPE of 0 : 26%, followed by MA-ARIMA with a MAPE of 1 : 12%; the worst result is given by the MA-ANN based on PSO with a MAPE of 15 : 51%.

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