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

Usage

example_sample_continuous

Format

An object of class forecast_sample (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

model

name of the model that generated the forecasts

horizon

forecast horizon in weeks

predicted

predicted value

sample_id

id for the corresponding sample

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).