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Table 1 Candidate forecasting methods

From: Forecasting the daily demand for emergency medical ambulances in England and Wales: a benchmark model and external validation

Method

Description

1

Holt-Winters Exponential Smoothing

2

Automatic Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (autoARIMA)

3

Lagged regression (autoregression) with holidays and seasonal indexes

4

Lagged regularised regression (elastic-net) with seasonal indexes

5

Regression with holidays and ARIMA errors

6

Regression with holidays, seasonal indexes and ARIMA errors

7

Harmonic Regression (fourier terms) with holidays

8

Singular Spectrum Analysis

9

Facebook Prophet

10

Trigonometric seasonality, Box-Cox transformation (TBATS)

11

Comb: Simple Exponential Smoothing, Linear Trend, damped trend

12

Ensemble of [1] and [2]

13

Ensemble of [7], [5]

14

Ensemble of [1], [9] and [5]