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Table 3 Forecasting performance comparison of two models during the 45th week

From: Hospital daily outpatient visits forecasting using a combinatorial model based on ARIMA and SES models

Time series data

Within a single week

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

Forecasting performance MAPE

EOV

observed values

206

193

182

171

150

86

34

 

ARIMA model

194.40

189.47

194.27

248.46

197.90

66.11

41.00

19.31%

SES model

196.76

195.68

190.00

256.56

193.76

76.33

46.28

19.55%

ROV

observed values

173

178

145

161

163

18

11

 

ARIMA model

197.32

197.88

160.23

174.97

121.83

24.85

18.03

25.44%

SES model

186.12

196.28

177.78

185.36

126.76

27.32

13.61

21.90%