Dissertation

On
Severity Prediction of COVID-19 Using Machine Learning Algorithms

By
Aaditya Tripathi (19059570008)

Vaibhav Maheshwari (19059570012)

Submitted as Partial Fulfillment

Of

B.Sc (Hons) Computer Science - VI Semester

Department of Computer Science,

Aryabhatta College,

University of Delhi

New Delhi – 110021

April, 2022
 Table of Contents

Page No.

Acknowledgement 3

Certificate 4

1. Introduction 5

2. Literature Survey 6

2.1 Related Work 6

2.2 Literature Review 7

2.3 Literature Review -Table 11

3. Methodology 15

3.1 Dataset - Overview 15

3.2 Exploratory Data Analysis(EDA) 16

3.3 Data Pre-processing 19

3.4 Dimensionality Reduction and Feature Selection 20

3.5 Machine Learning Techniques 27

3.5.1 Logistic Regression 27

3.5.2 Decision Tree 27

3.5.3 Random Forest 27

3.5.4 Support Vector Machine 27

3.5.5 eXtreme Gradient Boosting 27

3.5.6 K-Nearest Neighbor 28

3.6 Evaluation Metrics 28

4. Result 29

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5. Conclusion 33

6. References 35

7. Appendix 38

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 Acknowledgement

We wish to express our profound and sincere gratitude to Dr. Ranjan Kumar, Computer
Science Department, Aryabhatta College (University of Delhi) who guided us into the
intricacies of this project. We are highly grateful to team members who evinced keen
interest and invaluable support in the progress and successful completion of our project
work. We are indebted to our family for their constant encouragement, co-operation and
help. Words of gratitude are not enough to describe the accommodation and fortitude
which they have shown throughout our endeavor.

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 Certificate

This is to certify that Aaditya Tripathi and Vaibhav Maheshwari successfully carried
out the completion of the Report entitled “Severity Prediction of COVID-19
Using Machine Learning Algorithms” under my supervision. The Project has
been submitted as per the requirement of the Lab based on Dissertation of B.Sc. (H)
Computer Science, VI Semester.

Aaditya Tripathi Dr. Ranjan Kumar

19059570008 (Supervisor)

Vaibhav Maheshwari

19059570012

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