Development of the Advanced Algorithm for Forecasting Covid-19 Cases Based on Time Series and Neural Network Models

Daily Covid 19 Infections cases In Russian federation (forecasting First-wave) by using NNAR
Makarovskikh Tatyana Anatolyevna “Макаровских Татьяна Анатольевна”
Abotaleb mostafa“Аботалеб Мостафа”
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Department of system programming
South ural state university, Chelyabinsk, Russian federation
#Import
library(fpp2)
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library(forecast)
library(ggplot2)
library("readxl")
library(moments)
library(forecast)
require(forecast)  
require(tseries)
## Loading required package: tseries
require(markovchain)
## Loading required package: markovchain
## Package:  markovchain
## Version:  0.8.5-3
## Date:     2020-12-03
## BugReport: https://github.com/spedygiorgio/markovchain/issues
require(data.table)
## Loading required package: data.table
library(Hmisc)
## Loading required package: lattice
## Loading required package: survival
## Loading required package: Formula
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## Attaching package: 'Hmisc'
## The following objects are masked from 'package:base':
## 
##     format.pval, units
library(ascii)
##Global vriable##
Full_original_data <- read.csv("data.csv") # path of your data ( time series data)
original_data<-Full_original_data$cases
y_lab <- "Forecast First wave infection cases in Russia"   # input name of data
Actual_date_interval <- c("2020/03/01","2020/04/30")
Forecast_date_interval <- c("2020/05/01","2020/05/30")
validation_data_days <-3
frequency<-"days"
Number_Neural<-20 # Number of Neural For model NNAR Model
NNAR_Model<- FALSE     #create new model (TRUE/FALSE)  #create new model (TRUE/FALSE)
frequency<-"days"
# Data Preparation & calculate some of statistics measures
summary(original_data) # Summary your time series
##    Min. 1st Qu.  Median    Mean 3rd Qu.    Max. 
##     0.0     0.0     0.0   894.9   371.5  7099.0
# calculate standard deviation 
data.frame(kurtosis=kurtosis(original_data))   # calculate Cofficient of kurtosis
##   kurtosis
## 1 5.777923
data.frame(skewness=skewness(original_data))  # calculate Cofficient of skewness
##   skewness
## 1 2.058073
data.frame(Standard.deviation =sd(original_data))
##   Standard.deviation
## 1           1876.437
#processing on data (input data)
rows <- NROW(original_data) # calculate number of rows in time series (number of days)
training_data<-original_data[1:(rows-validation_data_days)] # Training data
testing_data<-original_data[(rows-validation_data_days+1):rows] #testing data
AD<-fulldate<-seq(as.Date(Actual_date_interval[1]),as.Date(Actual_date_interval[2]), frequency)  #input range for actual date
FD<-seq(as.Date(Forecast_date_interval[1]),as.Date(Forecast_date_interval[2]), frequency)  #input range forecasting date
N_forecasting_days<-nrow(data.frame(FD))  #calculate number of days that you want to forecasting
validation_dates<-tail(AD,validation_data_days) # select validation_dates
validation_data_by_name<-weekdays(validation_dates) # put names of validation dates
forecasting_data_by_name<-weekdays(FD)  # put names of Forecasting dates
#NNAR Model 
if(NNAR_Model==TRUE){
  data_series<-ts(training_data)
  model_NNAR<-nnetar(data_series, size = Number_Neural)
  saveRDS(model_NNAR, file = "model_NNAR.RDS")
  my_model <- readRDS("model_NNAR.RDS")
  accuracy(model_NNAR)  # accuracy on training data #Print Model Parameters
  model_NNAR
}
if(NNAR_Model==FALSE){
  data_series<-ts(training_data)
  #model_NNAR<-nnetar(data_series, size = Number_Numeral)
  model_NNAR <- readRDS("model_NNAR.RDS")
  accuracy(model_NNAR)  # accuracy on training data #Print Model Parameters
  model_NNAR
}
## Series: data_series 
## Model:  NNAR(1,20) 
## Call:   nnetar(y = data_series, size = Number_Neural)
## 
## Average of 20 networks, each of which is
## a 1-20-1 network with 61 weights
## options were - linear output units 
## 
## sigma^2 estimated as 51838
# Testing Data Evaluation
forecasting_NNAR <- forecast(model_NNAR, h=N_forecasting_days+validation_data_days)
validation_forecast<-head(forecasting_NNAR$mean,validation_data_days)
MAPE_Per_Day<-round(  abs(((testing_data-validation_forecast)/testing_data)*100)  ,3)
paste ("MAPE % For ",validation_data_days,frequency,"by using NNAR Model for  ==> ",y_lab, sep=" ")
## [1] "MAPE % For  3 days by using NNAR Model for  ==>  Forecast First wave infection cases in Russia"
MAPE_Mean_All<-paste(round(mean(MAPE_Per_Day),3),"% MAPE ",validation_data_days,frequency,y_lab,sep=" ")
MAPE_Mean_All_NNAR<-round(mean(MAPE_Per_Day),3)
MAPE_NNAR<-paste(round(MAPE_Per_Day,3),"%")
MAPE_NNAR_Model<-paste(MAPE_Per_Day ,"%")
paste (" MAPE that's Error of Forecasting for ",validation_data_days," days in NNAR Model for  ==> ",y_lab, sep=" ")
## [1] " MAPE that's Error of Forecasting for  3  days in NNAR Model for  ==>  Forecast First wave infection cases in Russia"
paste(MAPE_Mean_All,"%")
## [1] "14.17 % MAPE  3 days Forecast First wave infection cases in Russia %"
paste ("MAPE that's Error of Forecasting day by day for ",validation_data_days," days in NNAR Model for  ==> ",y_lab, sep=" ")
## [1] "MAPE that's Error of Forecasting day by day for  3  days in NNAR Model for  ==>  Forecast First wave infection cases in Russia"
print(ascii(data.frame(date_NNAR=validation_dates,validation_data_by_name,actual_data=testing_data,forecasting_NNAR=validation_forecast,MAPE_NNAR_Model)), type = "rest")
## 
## +---+------------+-------------------------+-------------+------------------+-----------------+
## |   | date_NNAR  | validation_data_by_name | actual_data | forecasting_NNAR | MAPE_NNAR_Model |
## +===+============+=========================+=============+==================+=================+
## | 1 | 2020-04-28 | Tuesday                 | 6411.00     | 5705.08          | 11.011 %        |
## +---+------------+-------------------------+-------------+------------------+-----------------+
## | 2 | 2020-04-29 | Wednesday               | 5841.00     | 5428.77          | 7.057 %         |
## +---+------------+-------------------------+-------------+------------------+-----------------+
## | 3 | 2020-04-30 | Thursday                | 7099.00     | 5363.93          | 24.441 %        |
## +---+------------+-------------------------+-------------+------------------+-----------------+
print(ascii(data.frame(FD,forecating_date=forecasting_data_by_name,forecasting_by_NNAR=tail(forecasting_NNAR$mean,N_forecasting_days))), type = "rest")
## 
## +----+------------+-----------------+---------------------+
## |    | FD         | forecating_date | forecasting_by_NNAR |
## +====+============+=================+=====================+
## | 1  | 2020-05-01 | Friday          | 5364.63             |
## +----+------------+-----------------+---------------------+
## | 2  | 2020-05-02 | Saturday        | 5364.59             |
## +----+------------+-----------------+---------------------+
## | 3  | 2020-05-03 | Sunday          | 5364.59             |
## +----+------------+-----------------+---------------------+
## | 4  | 2020-05-04 | Monday          | 5364.59             |
## +----+------------+-----------------+---------------------+
## | 5  | 2020-05-05 | Tuesday         | 5364.59             |
## +----+------------+-----------------+---------------------+
## | 6  | 2020-05-06 | Wednesday       | 5364.59             |
## +----+------------+-----------------+---------------------+
## | 7  | 2020-05-07 | Thursday        | 5364.59             |
## +----+------------+-----------------+---------------------+
## | 8  | 2020-05-08 | Friday          | 5364.59             |
## +----+------------+-----------------+---------------------+
## | 9  | 2020-05-09 | Saturday        | 5364.59             |
## +----+------------+-----------------+---------------------+
## | 10 | 2020-05-10 | Sunday          | 5364.59             |
## +----+------------+-----------------+---------------------+
## | 11 | 2020-05-11 | Monday          | 5364.59             |
## +----+------------+-----------------+---------------------+
## | 12 | 2020-05-12 | Tuesday         | 5364.59             |
## +----+------------+-----------------+---------------------+
## | 13 | 2020-05-13 | Wednesday       | 5364.59             |
## +----+------------+-----------------+---------------------+
## | 14 | 2020-05-14 | Thursday        | 5364.59             |
## +----+------------+-----------------+---------------------+
## | 15 | 2020-05-15 | Friday          | 5364.59             |
## +----+------------+-----------------+---------------------+
## | 16 | 2020-05-16 | Saturday        | 5364.59             |
## +----+------------+-----------------+---------------------+
## | 17 | 2020-05-17 | Sunday          | 5364.59             |
## +----+------------+-----------------+---------------------+
## | 18 | 2020-05-18 | Monday          | 5364.59             |
## +----+------------+-----------------+---------------------+
## | 19 | 2020-05-19 | Tuesday         | 5364.59             |
## +----+------------+-----------------+---------------------+
## | 20 | 2020-05-20 | Wednesday       | 5364.59             |
## +----+------------+-----------------+---------------------+
## | 21 | 2020-05-21 | Thursday        | 5364.59             |
## +----+------------+-----------------+---------------------+
## | 22 | 2020-05-22 | Friday          | 5364.59             |
## +----+------------+-----------------+---------------------+
## | 23 | 2020-05-23 | Saturday        | 5364.59             |
## +----+------------+-----------------+---------------------+
## | 24 | 2020-05-24 | Sunday          | 5364.59             |
## +----+------------+-----------------+---------------------+
## | 25 | 2020-05-25 | Monday          | 5364.59             |
## +----+------------+-----------------+---------------------+
## | 26 | 2020-05-26 | Tuesday         | 5364.59             |
## +----+------------+-----------------+---------------------+
## | 27 | 2020-05-27 | Wednesday       | 5364.59             |
## +----+------------+-----------------+---------------------+
## | 28 | 2020-05-28 | Thursday        | 5364.59             |
## +----+------------+-----------------+---------------------+
## | 29 | 2020-05-29 | Friday          | 5364.59             |
## +----+------------+-----------------+---------------------+
## | 30 | 2020-05-30 | Saturday        | 5364.59             |
## +----+------------+-----------------+---------------------+
plot(forecasting_NNAR,xlab = paste ("Time in", frequency ,y_lab , sep=" "), ylab=y_lab)
x1_test <- ts(testing_data, start =(rows-validation_data_days+1) )
lines(x1_test, col='red',lwd=2)

graph1<-autoplot(forecasting_NNAR,xlab = paste ("Time in", frequency ,y_lab , sep=" "), ylab=y_lab)
graph1+scale_y_continuous(labels = scales::comma)+
  forecast::autolayer(forecasting_NNAR$mean, series="NNAR Model",size = 0.7) +
  guides(colour=guide_legend(title="Forecasts"),fill = "black")+
  theme(legend.position="bottom")+
  theme(legend.background = element_rect(fill="white",
                                         size=0.7, linetype="solid", 
                                         colour ="gray"))