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. 2022 Sep 21;10:e13117. doi: 10.7717/peerj.13117

Table 1. Hyperparameters used in themachine learning models.

No Series Model Estimated parameter AICc/Accuracy Residuals check (Ljung-Box test dat)
1 Training set of TB incidence (150 observations) ARIMA(1,0,0)(2,1,0) by R, package: forecast, function: auto.arima Coefficients:
ar1 = −0.2399, sar1 = −0.6395, sar2 = −0.2443, drift = −0.0038
s.e. 0.0866 0.0882 0.0907 0.0002
sigma^2 estimated as 0.00475: log likelihood = 172.81
AIC = −335.62,
AICc = −335.17,
BIC = −320.99;
RMSE = 0.0652
MAPE = 0.5127
Residuals from ARIMA(1,0,0)(2,1,0) with drift, Q* = 62.283, df = 20, p-value = 3.139e−06, Model df: 4. Total lags used: 24
2 Simulation set of TB incidence (192 observations) ARIMA(3,0,0)(2,1,0) by R, package: forecast, function: auto.arima Coefficients:
ar1 = 0.1283, ar2 = 0.1111, ar3 = 0.2527, sar1 = −0.6137, sar2 = −0.3464, drift = −0.0041
sigma^2 estimated as 0.005094: log likelihood = 219.89
AIC = −425.79
AICc = −425.14
BIC = −403.44
RMSE = 0.0652,
MAPE = 0.5213
Residuals from ARIMA(3,0,0)(2,1,0) with drift
Q* = 34.641, df = 18, p-value = 0.01048, Model df: 6. Total lags used: 24
3 Training set of TB incidence (150 observations) ETS(A,A,A) Smoothing parameters: alpha = 0.0102, beta = 0.0101,
gamma = 1e−04;
AIC = −68.44,
AICc = −63.81,
BIC = −17.26
RMSE = 0.0581,
MAPE = 0.4591
Residuals from ETS(A,A,A); Q* = 61.132, df = 8, p-value = 2.793e−10; Model df: 16. Total lags used: 24
4 Simulation set of TB incidence (192 observations) ETS(A,A,A),
Call: ets (y = M)
ETS(A,A,A) Call: ets (y = M) Smoothing parameters: alpha = 0.0738,
beta = 1e−04,
gamma = 1e−04 ,
AIC = −25.56
AICc = −22.04
BIC = 29.82
RMSE = 0.0618,
MAPE = 0.4870
Residuals from ETS(A,A,A); Q* = 51.531, df = 8, p-value = 2.073e−08; Model df: 16. Total lags used: 24
5 Training set of TB incidence (150 observations) ARIMA-ETS Hybrid forecast model comprised of the following models: arima with weight 0.5, ETS with weight 0.5 RMSE = 0.0585
MAPE = 0.4613
Could not find appropriate degrees of freedom for this model
6 Simulation set of TB incidence (192 observations) ARIMA-ETS Hybrid forecast model comprised of the following models: arima with weight 0.5, ETS with weight 0.5 RMSE = 0.0512
MAPE = 0.5058
Could not find appropriate degrees of freedom for this model