ML-CI: Machine Learning Confidence Intervals for Covid-19 forecasts
Résumé
Epidemic forecasting has always been challenging and the recent Covid-19 outbreaks emphasizes it. We introduce a novel approach to address the problem of evaluating confidence intervals (CI) of time series prediction forecasts for compartmental models, using machine learning. We evaluate our approach using real data of the Covid pandemic on 27 countries. Compartmental models were trained taking into account non pharmaceutical governmental measures. A Random Forest regressor was trained, using various engineered features, to predict the forecasting error for various horizons on synthetic data, then applied to estimate CI on real data forecasts. Our method outperforms baselines using forecast likelihood as metric.
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