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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Apr 5.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Appl Stat. 2020 Jun 29;14(2):685–705. doi: 10.1214/19-aoas1294

Table 3.

Coverage rate of 80% and 95% of prediction intervals based on model trained with data before 2005 and WPP 2008 Revision.

WPP Version Testing Period Original Method Proposed Method
95% PI 80% PI 95% PI 80% PI
WPP 2008 2005–2010 98.5% 92.9% 98.5% 88.0%
WPP 2010 2005–2010 89.8% 73.0% 97.4% 83.3%
WPP 2012 2005–2010 79.9% 62.9% 95.4% 79.1%
WPP 2015 2005–2010 78.6% 61.3% 92.1% 77.7%
WPP 2017 2005–2010 78.4% 62.4% 92.4%, 78.1%