At the end of 2019 a new virus appeared in China. The virus was named severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the disease it causes was named COVID-19. The symptoms of SARS-Cov-2 can range from fever, nauseousness, fatigue to pneumonia and even death. Because the virus has spread extremely rapidly, COVID-19 was proclaimed as a pandemic. The goal of this bachelor's thesis is to compare models that predict the spread of the virus. Our models were built on data provided by Johns Hopkins University and our chosen models were linear regression, nonlinear regression with a logistic function and a SIR model. According to the results the best models seemed to be the linear regression, where the train set was composed from data from the previous week and the nonlinear regression with a logistic function.
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