Table 2.
Average results without and with Google Trends data in 215 countries.
| Method | MAEa | RMSEb | Pearson correlation | Spearman correlation | P valuec | |||||||||||||||
| Avgd | Maxe | Minf | Avg | Max | Min | Avg | Max | Min | Avg | Max | Min | Avg | Max | Min | ||||||
| Without Google Trends | 5.67 | 17.20 | 0.77 | 10.27 | 26.00 | 2.86 | 0.82 | 0.99 | –0.02 | 0.76 | 0.99 | –0.02 | .018 | <.999 | <.001 |
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| With Google Trends | 5.42 | 15.32 | 0.26 | 9.27 | 24.40 | 1.81 | 0.89 | 0.99 | 0.08 | 0.84 | 1.00 | 0.21 | .001 | .24 | <.001 |
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aMAE: mean absolute error.
bRMSE: root mean square error.
cP value of the Pearson correlation.
dAvg: average.
eMax: maximum.
fMin: minimum.