Research Article

COVID-19 in Iran: Forecasting Pandemic Using Deep Learning

Table 2

Comparison of performance in test stage on nine selected countries.

ModelBIDILagMAPE scoreRMSENRMSE

RF2.340.99119194970.069109
2.60.98764231030.081891
2.70.98741233080.082617
MLP1.320.994224990.001769
1.70.993485300.001879
1.540.993805170.001833
LSTM-R2.2600.980883242.910.011495
2.0320.981851065.410.003776
2.0250.990231032.340.003659
LSTM-E1.2130.99521750.600.002661
1.2510.99671610.860.002165
0.9110.99832580.410.002057
M-LSTM0.7260.99884530.740.001881
0.5500.99981490.170.001737
0.5090.99997458.120.001624

represents only confirmed cases as input and shows the confirmed cases along with death and recovered cases. BI: basic information; DI: detailed information. The performance is evaluated on confirmed cases as output.