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A data set with predictions for COVID-19 cases and deaths submitted to the European Forecast Hub.

Usage

example_quantile

Format

An object of class forecast_quantile (see as_forecast_quantile()) 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

Numeric: observed values

location_name

name of the country for which a prediction was made

forecast_date

the date on which a prediction was made

quantile_level

quantile level of the corresponding prediction

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).