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Table 4 Forecast accuracies by algorithm and clinic using all features as well as MAPE accuracies of models using only autoregressive features in parentheses. Ranks per clinic are based on MAPE and are also combined across both

From: Forecasting patient flows with pandemic induced concept drift using explainable machine learning

 

Clinic 1

Clinic 2

Combined

 

MAPE

Rank

RMSE

MAE

MAPE

Rank

RMSE

MAE

Rank

kNN

17.5 ± 8.8 (11.3)

12.7

29.8

25.2

21.7 ± 14.7 (15.0)

12.3

15.7

13.2

12.5

SVR (NU)

17.7 ± 11.3 (11.2)

12.4

29.7

25.3

20.4 ± 16.8 (14.5)

11.1

14.6

12.4

11.7

Benchmark

16.7 ± 13.5 (16.7)

11.4

25.6

22.0

21.9 ± 21.1 (21.9)

11.1

14.6

12.4

11.2

Naive

16.3 ± 11.7 (16.3)

11.0

25.7

22.3

19.1 ± 16.6 (19.1)

10.3

13.5

11.4

10.6

Prophet

10.1 ± 5.3 (11.8)

6.9

16.7

14.2

15.7 ± 14.6 (16.6)

7.9

10.9

9.2

7.4

Naive (Enhanced)

10.7 ± 6.1 (10.7)

7.6

17.7

14.9

14.1 ± 9.4 (14.1)

7.0

10.1

8.4

7.3

ARIMA

10.5 ± 5.9 (10.5)

7.4

17.3

14.6

14.4 ± 9.6 (14.1)

7.2

10.1

8.5

7.3

Kernel Ridge

9.9 ± 4.2 (10.6)

7.0

16.8

14.1

14.1 ± 9.0 (14.3)

7.5

10.1

8.3

7.3

Ridge

9.9 ± 4.2 (10.6)

6.9

16.8

14.1

14.1 ± 9.2 (14.3)

7.3

10.1

8.3

7.1

Random Forest

10.0 ± 5.6 (10.5)

7.1

16.7

13.9

13.9 ± 9.1 (14.2)

7.1

10.0

8.3

7.1

CatBoost

9.6 ± 4.4 (10.4)

6.8

16.3

13.5

13.4 ± 7.0 (14.2)

7.1

9.8

8.1

7.0

Gradient Boosting

9.6 ± 4.5 (10.3)

6.6

16.3

13.5

13.6 ± 7.6 (14.1)

7.1

9.9

8.2

6.8

Stacking

9.4 ± 4.8 (10.0)

5.8

15.8

13.2

13.6 ± 10.4 (13.9)

6.2

9.6

8.0

6.0

Averaging

9.2 ± 4.6 (9.9)

5.1

15.3

12.8

13.3 ± 9.4 (13.7)

5.6

9.5

7.9

5.4

Voting

9.0 ± 4.6 (9.7)

5.0

15.0

12.6

13.1 ± 9.1 (13.5)

5.4

9.3

7.8

5.2