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. 2021 Feb 1;84(7):1462–1474. doi: 10.1002/jemt.23702

TABLE 3.

Forecasting accuracy measures for the cumulative confirmed cases and deaths in the countries where herd lockdown was imposed

Country Iceland Netherland Sweden
Models MAPE MAE RMSE MAPE MAE RMSE MAPE MAE RMSE
Daily cumulative number of confirmed cases
PR 27.69 715.54 830.54 9.56 10,285.79 11,743.07 7.39 6,742.31 8,223.87
SVR 6.71 173.88 203.87 9.45 10,195.53 11,608.08 47.96 43,296.94 43,666.40
DT 11.40 293.92 332.64 14.26 15,463.84 18,014.32 2.44 2,226.53 2,701.35
GBR 11.43 294.69 333.32 14.30 15,504.66 18,049.37 2.47 2,259.54 2,728.62
RF 11.66 300.41 338.39 15.00 16,219.56 18,667.07 2.59 2,366.83 2,818.11
KNN 11.74 302.42 340.18 15.11 16,340.34 18,772.11 2.61 2,381.53 2,830.46
Holt winter 7.89 202.74 225.68 3.89 4,265.77 5,347.75 0.82 741.17 855.84
ARIMA 7.40 190.30 212.45 3.49 3,845.05 4,967.90 0.71 650.78 813.43
SARIMA 7.49 192.93 216.84 2.07 2,297.04 3,144.86 0.39 354.67 456.47
Daily cumulative number of deaths
PR 24.29 2.42 2.78 27.86 1769.76 2060.50 17.09 1,005.51 1,178.89
SVR 20.23 2.02 2.03 34.08 2,157.51 2,171.72 58.15 3,417.77 3,445.04
DT 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.93 59.53 75.31 0.20 11.92 14.98
GBR 0.001 0.0001 0.0001 0.95 60.99 76.47 0.23 13.89 16.59
RF 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.96 61.52 76.89 0.24 14.10 16.77
KNN 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.98 62.53 77.70 0.236 13.92 16.62
Holt winter 0.00 0.002 0.0003 0.65 41.78 54.87 0.63 37.06 41.79
ARIMA 1.20 0.12 0.13 0.60 38.59 51.96 0.57 33.83 40.15
SARIMA 2.7 0.27 0.30 0.53 34.03 47.01 0.42 24.93 27.59

Three model values were bolded due to those provided best results than other.