generate_point_forecast: Generate a point forecast from probabilistic forecast

In jarad/FluSight: Utility functions for the CDC FluSight competition

Description

The point forecast is taken to be either the expected value, median, or mode of the probabilistic forecasts.

Usage

generate_point_forecast(d, method = c("Median", "Expected Value",
  "Mode"))

Arguments

d	A data.frame with columns 'location', 'target', bin_start_incl', and 'value'
method	The method to be used to generate the point forecasts. "Median" (the default) uses the median value, "Expected Value" generates the expected value from the provided probabilities,and "Mode" returns the individual bin with the largest probability

Value

A data.frame with columns 'type' and 'value'

See Also

generate_point_forecasts

jarad/FluSight documentation built on Oct. 24, 2020, 9:58 p.m.