Estimating the Number of Future Coronavirus Cases in the United States

Sebastian Quintero
Towards Data Science
6 min readMar 11, 2020

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Update 3/14/2020: The model predictions at the bottom of this article have a mean absolute error (MAE) of 86 between 3/11 and 3/14. That implies that the AR-X(1) model outlined in this paper has been accurate to within an average of 86 coronavirus confirmations thus far.
Update 3/18/2020: Updated statistics are available in a follow-up article.
Update 4/10/2020: Recent data indicates that the US is on a tragic path toward experiencing more infections and mortalities from coronavirus than any other developed country on the planet.

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