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Tag Archives: Projections
Machine learning projection model for Covid-19
Youyang Gu, an independent data scientist, has created a statistical projection model for Covid-19 (https://covid19-projections.com/) that uses machine learning techniques to fit a classical SEIR infectious disease model to the data for daily confirmed cases and deaths, taking into account … Continue reading
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Tagged coronavirus, COVID-19, machine learning, pandemic, Projections, SEIR model
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COVID-19 projections and reality
On 27th April, I posted some short-run projections of COVID-19 cases and deaths. The plots below show how the daily new cases per million population and deaths per million population compare with reality (at least the confirmed case rates and … Continue reading
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Tagged coronavirus, COVID-19, IHME, pandemic, Projections
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COVID-19 short-run projections
Purely statistical predictions of future trends in COVID-19 deaths or cases, even including predictive covariates, have been unable to make sensible forecasts that are not highly sensitive to slight additions of data. The only useful models have been the more … Continue reading
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Tagged coronavirus, COVID-19, IHME, pandemic, Projections
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Critics agree that IHME COVID-19 projection model is flawed
I downloaded the latest IHME update of its COVID-19 projections yesterday to do another evaluation. Their projections still look very problematic. Other disease modellers and epidemiologists are coming to the same conclusion. An article just published in Statnews was much … Continue reading
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How useful are IHME projections of the coronavirus pandemic?
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), based at the University of Washington in Seattle, caused considerable alarm on 7 April when it released projections of Covid-19 deaths which predicted total deaths for the UK would be the highest … Continue reading
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NEW PROJECTIONS OF MORTALITY AND CAUSES OF DEATH TO YEAR 2060
Back in 2006, I published a paper in PLoS Medicine with detailed projections of deaths by age, sex and cause for all regions of the world, from year 2002 to 2030 (https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0030442). That paper has proved very popular, with over … Continue reading
Future life expectancy in 35 industrialized countries: projections to year 2030
Today, the Lancet published our study projecting life expectancy trends to 2030 for 35 countries: http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(16)32381-9/abstract Life expectancy at birth is projected to exceed 90 years for Korean women in 2030, a level of average life expectancy many thought impossible … Continue reading
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Tagged life expectancy, longevity, Projections
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