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. 2022 Jul 20;10(7):e34504. doi: 10.2196/34504

Table 4.

DMa test results of testing data set for same data set.

Test model Reference modelb,c
GLMd ARIMAXe ANNf SVMg RFh LSTMi
Patient arrivals + traditional variables

ELM 2.8297 (<.001) 3.0624 (<.001) 2.012 (<.001) 1.8178 (<.001) 2.8481 (<.001) 2.1002 (<.001)

GLM
0.2935 (.31) 0.86595 (.11) 1.0707 (.06) 0.7643 (.09) 0.1663 (.54)

ARIMAX

0.64435 (.17) 1.0691 (.06) 0.3957 (.23) 0.4876 (.68)

ANN


0.13244 (.38) 0.2746 (.45) 1.9512 (.01)

SVM



0.5823 (.27) 0.8714 (.12)

RF




1.0045 (.08)
Patient arrivals + traditional variables + internet search index

ELM 2.5062 (<.001) 3.79 (<.001) 2.0047 (<.001) 2.0325 (<.001) 2.0476 (<.001) 1.6659 (.02)

GLM
0.32675 (.30) 1.1462 (.12) 1.6064 (.07) 1.0467 (.09) 0.3647 (.64)

ARIMAX

1.7314 (.06) 2.2885 (.05) 1.5946 (.11) 1.2671 (.07)

ANN


0.14419 (.40) 0.2104 (.49) 1.2304 (.08)

SVM



0.2593 (.36) 1.4391 (.04)

RF




1.2992 (.06)

aDM: Diebold-Mariano.

bThe P value modified by false discovery rate is given in brackets. The significance level is .05.

cValues are presented as the Diebold-Mariano statistic (P value modified by false discovery rate).

dGLM: generalized linear model.

eARIMAX: ARIMA with explanatory variables.

fANN: artificial neural network.

gSVM: support vector machine.

hRF: random forest.

iLSTM: long short-term memory.