Background: Accurate forecasting of hospital outpatient visits is beneficial for the reasonable planning and allocation of healthcare resource to meet the medical demands. In terms of the multiple attributes of daily ...
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Background: Accurate forecasting of hospital outpatient visits is beneficial for the reasonable planning and allocation of healthcare resource to meet the medical demands. In terms of the multiple attributes of daily outpatient visits, such as randomness, cyclicity and trend, time series methods, ARIMA, can be a good choice for outpatient visits forecasting. On the other hand, the hospital outpatient visits are also affected by the doctors' scheduling and the effects are not pure random. Thinking about the impure specialty, this paper presents a new forecastingmodel that takes cyclicity and the day of the week effect into consideration. Methods: We formulate a seasonal ARIMA (SARIMA) model on a daily time series and then a single exponential smoothing (SES) model on the day of the week time series, and finally establish a combinatorialmodel by modifying them. The models are applied to 1 year of daily visits data of urban outpatients in two internal medicine departments of a large hospital in Chengdu, for forecasting the daily outpatient visits about 1 week ahead. Results: The proposed model is applied to forecast the cross-sectional data for 7 consecutive days of daily outpatient visits over an 8-weeks period based on 43 weeks of observation data during 1 year. The results show that the two single traditional models and the combinatorialmodel are simplicity of implementation and low computational intensiveness, whilst being appropriate for short-term forecast horizons. Furthermore, the combinatorialmodel can capture the comprehensive features of the time series data better. Conclusions: combinatorialmodel can achieve better prediction performance than the single model, with lower residuals variance and small mean of residual errors which needs to be optimized deeply on the next research step.
The security and stability of the power grid are directly affected by the accuracy of power load forecasting. Additionally, it plays an important role in power system planning. In order to enhance forecasting accuracy...
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The security and stability of the power grid are directly affected by the accuracy of power load forecasting. Additionally, it plays an important role in power system planning. In order to enhance forecasting accuracy, a combined forecastingmodel is proposed in this paper. Firstly, preprocessing of the original data is conducted through improved singular spectrum analysis. Subsequently, load data prediction is carried out by the adaptive evolutionary extreme learning machine (SaDE-ELM). Additionally, load data prediction is performed using the support vector machine model(SVM), which is optimized by the chaotic adaptive whale algorithm based on the firefly disturbance strategy (FA-CAWOA-LSSVM). In the final step, the weight coefficients of the two prediction models are calculated by the chaotic sparrow search algorithm (CSSA). The load prediction results are obtained through the weighted summation of the two predictions. Superior performance is demonstrated by the combined prediction model compared with other single prediction models. The data preprocessing method, based on improved singular spectrum analysis, effectively enhances prediction accuracy.
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