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Table 5 Prediction performance results of three models

From: Time series model for forecasting the number of new admission inpatients

Time

Model

Modeling error

Testing error

series

RMSE

MAE

MAPE*

RMSE

MAE

MAPE*

Monthly

SARIMA

759.67

573.75

6.81

426.45

410.97

4.56

NARNN

448.04

232.92

2.73

886.39

692.29

7.61

SARIMA-NARNN

433.82

299.22

3.48

378.03

327.75

3.64

Daily

SARIMA

73.73

42.01

18.50

37.29 a

20.36 a

4.91 a

    

87.01b

51.11 b

24.22 b

NARNN

32.97

23.49

9.42

24.54 a

14.12 a

3.44 a

    

86.88 b

49.24 b

23.14 b

SARIMA-NARNN

36.86

25.59

10.37

35.82 a

18.76 a

5.15 a

    

98.24 b

63.43 b

33.90 b

  1. *MAPE values should be multiplied by 10−2. athe testing error in one-week, bthe testing error in four-weeks