Comparison of Time Series Methods and Machine Learning Algorithms for Forecasting Taiwan Blood Services Foundation’s Blood Supply

Table 4

Blood supply predictions using the best performing time series and machine learning methods.

Methods	Prediction
	1/1/2018	1/2/2018	1/3/2018	1/4/2018	1/5/2018	1/6/2018	1/7/2018
Seasonalized ARIMA	1491	899	882	1301	1242	200	208
Seasonalized ESM	1480	901	883	1314	1232	200	210
Multiplicative Holt-Winters	1490	906	887	1308	1251	202	210
Regression	1458	1269	1088	951	779	589	410
Actual supply	979	1223	972	1354	721	263	203