Activity
Time:
M.S. Thesis Defense: Junzhe Cai
Date:
2:00 pm –
3:00 pm
Zoom
M.S. Thesis Defense: Junzhe Cai
Thursday, November 19
2 p.m.
Zoom link: https://unl.zoom.us/j/9371166780
“A Novel Spatiotemporal Prediction Method of Cumulative Covid-19 Cases”
Prediction methods are important for many applications. In particular, an accurate prediction for the total number of cases for pandemics such as the Covid-19 pandemic could help medical preparedness by providing in time a sufficient supply of testing kits, hospital beds and medical personnel. This thesis experimentally compares the accuracy of ten prediction methods for the cumulative number of Covid-19 pandemic cases. These ten methods include three types of neural networks and extrapolation methods based on best fit quadratic, best fit cubic and Lagrange interpolation, as well as an extrapolation method from Revesz. We also consider the Kriging and inverse distance weighting spatial interpolation methods. We also develop a novel spatiotemporal prediction method by combining method from Revesz and inverse distance weighting. The experiments show that among these ten prediction methods, the spatiotemporal method has the smallest root mean square error and mean absolute error on Covid-19 cumulative data for counties in New York State between May and July, 2020.
Supervisor: Dr. Peter Z. Revesz
Committee member: Dr. Leen-Kiat Soh, Dr. Ashok Samal
Thursday, November 19
2 p.m.
Zoom link: https://unl.zoom.us/j/9371166780
“A Novel Spatiotemporal Prediction Method of Cumulative Covid-19 Cases”
Prediction methods are important for many applications. In particular, an accurate prediction for the total number of cases for pandemics such as the Covid-19 pandemic could help medical preparedness by providing in time a sufficient supply of testing kits, hospital beds and medical personnel. This thesis experimentally compares the accuracy of ten prediction methods for the cumulative number of Covid-19 pandemic cases. These ten methods include three types of neural networks and extrapolation methods based on best fit quadratic, best fit cubic and Lagrange interpolation, as well as an extrapolation method from Revesz. We also consider the Kriging and inverse distance weighting spatial interpolation methods. We also develop a novel spatiotemporal prediction method by combining method from Revesz and inverse distance weighting. The experiments show that among these ten prediction methods, the spatiotemporal method has the smallest root mean square error and mean absolute error on Covid-19 cumulative data for counties in New York State between May and July, 2020.
Supervisor: Dr. Peter Z. Revesz
Committee member: Dr. Leen-Kiat Soh, Dr. Ashok Samal