Estimation of Daily Cases, Deaths, Serious Patients and Recovering Patients of Covid-19 in Turkey with Machine Learning Methods

Abstract

Covid-19 is the first pandemic of the century and differs from previous pandemics due to its duration, loss of life, and psychological, sociological and economic effects. In this process, the virus has produced and continues to produce many variants. Considering the frequency and amount of mobility on Earth, this situation does not seem likely to change soon. Understanding the course of the pandemic will be helpful in being prepared for the next possible pandemics. To this end, the daily data published by the Turkish Ministry of Health was examined, and machine learn-ing methods, which is an up-to-date approach, were used to understand the features and make predictions for the future on different data groups. The data groups used are in a very complex time series structure and were chosen as the number of daily cases, severe patients, deaths, and recoveries per day. The results of polynomial regression, least squares polynomial fit, and cubic spline fit, and estimations are shown in this article. The results are presented graph-ically, and by means of an accepted performance criterion in time series estimation, namely by the mean, median, standard deviation, and total values of the Canberra distance. It is seen that the best results for the time series mentioned above are obtained by the cubic spline fit method. The degrees of the curves used in the estimations vary according to the time series. The estimation results obtained provided a high accuracy rate that varies depending on the time series.

Keywords

• Covid 19
• machine learning
• cubic spline fit
• least squares polynomial fit
• polynomial regression

Makine Öğrenmesi Yöntemleri ile Türkiye’de Covid-19’a İlişkin Günlük Vaka, Ağır Hasta, Vefat ve İyileşen Sayısı Tahmini

Abstract

Covid-19 içinde bulunduğumuz yüzyılın ilk pandemisidir ve bundan önceki pandemilere kıyasla süresi, neden olduğu can kaybı, yarattığı psikolojik, sosyolojik ve ekonomik etkileri dolayısıyla farklılık göstermektedir. Bu süreçte virüs pek çok varyant üretmiştir ve üretmeye de devam etmektedir. Dünya üzerindeki hareketliliğin sıklığı ve miktarı düşünüldüğünde, bu durumun yakın gelecekte değişmesi mümkün gözükmemektedir. Pandeminin gidişatını anlamak, bundan sonraki olası pandemiler için hazırlıklı olmak konusunda faydalı olacaktır. Bu amaçla, T.C. Sağlık Bakanlığı tarafından yayınlanan günlük veri incelenmiş, farklı veri grupları üzerinde gerek özelliklerini anlama gerekse geleceğe yönelik tahmin gerçekleştirme amacıyla, güncel bir yaklaşım olan makine öğrenmesi yöntemleri kullanılmıştır. Kul-lanılan veri grupları oldukça karmaşık birer zaman serisi yapısındadır ve günlük vaka sayısı, ağır hasta sayısı, günlük vefat sayısı ve günlük iyileşen sayısı olarak seçilmiştir. Polinom regresyon, en küçük kareler polinom uyumu ve kübik eğri uyumu sonuçları ile tahminler bu makalede incelenmiştir. Sonuçlar gerek grafikler yoluyla gerekse zaman serisi tahmininde kabul görmüş bir performans kriteri olan Canberra uzaklığının ortalama, medyan, standart sapma ve top-lam değerleriyle, sayısal olarak belirtilmiştir. Yukarıda belirtilen dört zaman serisi için en iyi sonuçların, kübik eğri uyumu yöntemiyle alındığı görülmektedir. Tahminlerde kullanılan eğrilerin dereceleri, zaman serisine göre değişiklik göstermektedir. Elde edilen tahmin sonuçları, zaman serisine bağlı olarak değişen yüksek doğruluk oranı sağlamıştır.

Keywords

• Covid-19
• makine öğrenmesi
• en küçük kareler polinom uyumu
• kübik eğri uyumu
• polinom regresyon

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