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A data set with predictions for COVID-19 cases and deaths submitted to the European Forecast Hub. This data set is like the quantile example data, only that the median has been replaced by a point forecast.

Usage

example_point

Format

An object of class forecast_point (see as_forecast()) with the following columns:

location

the country for which a prediction was made

target_end_date

the date for which a prediction was made

target_type

the target to be predicted (cases or deaths)

observed

observed values

location_name

name of the country for which a prediction was made

forecast_date

the date on which a prediction was made

predicted

predicted value

model

name of the model that generated the forecasts

horizon

forecast horizon in weeks

Details

The data was created using the script create-example-data.R in the inst/ folder (or the top level folder in a compiled package).