Flusight-baseline

The code in this repository creates the Flusight-baseline model and Flusight-seasonal-baseline model in the Flusight-forecast-hub repository.

Dependencies

The baseline model is implemented in R, and has the following package dependencies:

• Packages available on CRAN:
  • purrr
  • dplyr
  • readr
  • tidyr
  • lubridate
  • ggplot2
  • ggforce
• Other packages, to be installed via GitHub:
  • covidHubUtils: See this package's documentation page for installation instructions.
  • simplets: Install from GitHub using the command devtools::install_github("reichlab/simplets")

Running the baseline model

The script flusight-baseline.R creates the Flusight-baseline forecasts. It can be run, for example, via

Rscript flusight-baseline.R

The script flusight-seasonal-baseline.R creates the Flusight-seasonal-baseline forecasts.

Baseline forecasts will be saved in the directory weekly-submission/forecasts/Flusight-baseline.

Seasonal baseline forecasts will be saved in the directory weekly-submission/forecasts/Flusight-seasonal-baseline.

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