Package 'forecast'

Title: Forecasting Functions for Time Series and Linear Models
Description: Methods and tools for displaying and analysing univariate time series forecasts including exponential smoothing via state space models and automatic ARIMA modelling.
Authors: Rob Hyndman [aut, cre, cph] , George Athanasopoulos [aut] , Christoph Bergmeir [aut] , Gabriel Caceres [aut] , Leanne Chhay [aut], Kirill Kuroptev [aut], Mitchell O'Hara-Wild [aut] , Fotios Petropoulos [aut] , Slava Razbash [aut], Earo Wang [aut] , Farah Yasmeen [aut] , Federico Garza [ctb], Daniele Girolimetto [ctb], Ross Ihaka [ctb, cph], R Core Team [ctb, cph], Daniel Reid [ctb], David Shaub [ctb], Yuan Tang [ctb] , Xiaoqian Wang [ctb], Zhenyu Zhou [ctb]
Maintainer: Rob Hyndman <[email protected]>
License: GPL-3
Version: 8.23.0.9000
Built: 2024-10-29 03:17:08 UTC
Source: https://github.com/robjhyndman/forecast

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forecast: Forecasting Functions for Time Series and Linear Models

Description

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Methods and tools for displaying and analysing univariate time series forecasts including exponential smoothing via state space models and automatic ARIMA modelling.

Author(s)

Maintainer: Rob Hyndman [email protected] (ORCID) [copyright holder]

Authors:

  • George Athanasopoulos (ORCID)

  • Christoph Bergmeir (ORCID)

  • Gabriel Caceres (ORCID)

  • Leanne Chhay

  • Kirill Kuroptev

  • Mitchell O'Hara-Wild (ORCID)

  • Fotios Petropoulos (ORCID)

  • Slava Razbash

  • Earo Wang (ORCID)

  • Farah Yasmeen (ORCID)

Other contributors:

  • Federico Garza [contributor]

  • Daniele Girolimetto [contributor]

  • Ross Ihaka [contributor, copyright holder]

  • R Core Team [contributor, copyright holder]

  • Daniel Reid [contributor]

  • David Shaub [contributor]

  • Yuan Tang (ORCID) [contributor]

  • Xiaoqian Wang [contributor]

  • Zhenyu Zhou [contributor]

See Also

Useful links:


Accuracy measures for a forecast model

Description

Returns range of summary measures of the forecast accuracy. If x is provided, the function measures test set forecast accuracy based on x-f. If x is not provided, the function only produces training set accuracy measures of the forecasts based on f["x"]-fitted(f). All measures are defined and discussed in Hyndman and Koehler (2006).

Usage

## Default S3 method:
accuracy(object, x, test = NULL, d = NULL, D = NULL, f = NULL, ...)

Arguments

object

An object of class “forecast”, or a numerical vector containing forecasts. It will also work with Arima, ets and lm objects if x is omitted – in which case training set accuracy measures are returned.

x

An optional numerical vector containing actual values of the same length as object, or a time series overlapping with the times of f.

test

Indicator of which elements of x and f to test. If test is NULL, all elements are used. Otherwise test is a numeric vector containing the indices of the elements to use in the test.

d

An integer indicating the number of lag-1 differences to be used for the denominator in MASE calculation. Default value is 1 for non-seasonal series and 0 for seasonal series.

D

An integer indicating the number of seasonal differences to be used for the denominator in MASE calculation. Default value is 0 for non-seasonal series and 1 for seasonal series.

f

Deprecated. Please use 'object' instead.

...

Additional arguments depending on the specific method.

Details

The measures calculated are:

  • ME: Mean Error

  • RMSE: Root Mean Squared Error

  • MAE: Mean Absolute Error

  • MPE: Mean Percentage Error

  • MAPE: Mean Absolute Percentage Error

  • MASE: Mean Absolute Scaled Error

  • ACF1: Autocorrelation of errors at lag 1.

By default, the MASE calculation is scaled using MAE of training set naive forecasts for non-seasonal time series, training set seasonal naive forecasts for seasonal time series and training set mean forecasts for non-time series data. If f is a numerical vector rather than a forecast object, the MASE will not be returned as the training data will not be available.

See Hyndman and Koehler (2006) and Hyndman and Athanasopoulos (2014, Section 2.5) for further details.

Value

Matrix giving forecast accuracy measures.

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman

References

Hyndman, R.J. and Koehler, A.B. (2006) "Another look at measures of forecast accuracy". International Journal of Forecasting, 22(4), 679-688.

Hyndman, R.J. and Athanasopoulos, G. (2018) "Forecasting: principles and practice", 2nd ed., OTexts, Melbourne, Australia. Section 3.4 "Evaluating forecast accuracy". https://otexts.com/fpp2/accuracy.html.

Examples

fit1 <- rwf(EuStockMarkets[1:200, 1], h = 100)
fit2 <- meanf(EuStockMarkets[1:200, 1], h = 100)
accuracy(fit1)
accuracy(fit2)
accuracy(fit1, EuStockMarkets[201:300, 1])
accuracy(fit2, EuStockMarkets[201:300, 1])
plot(fit1)
lines(EuStockMarkets[1:300, 1])

(Partial) Autocorrelation and Cross-Correlation Function Estimation

Description

The function Acf computes (and by default plots) an estimate of the autocorrelation function of a (possibly multivariate) time series. Function Pacf computes (and by default plots) an estimate of the partial autocorrelation function of a (possibly multivariate) time series. Function Ccf computes the cross-correlation or cross-covariance of two univariate series.

Usage

Acf(
  x,
  lag.max = NULL,
  type = c("correlation", "covariance", "partial"),
  plot = TRUE,
  na.action = na.contiguous,
  demean = TRUE,
  ...
)

Pacf(
  x,
  lag.max = NULL,
  plot = TRUE,
  na.action = na.contiguous,
  demean = TRUE,
  ...
)

Ccf(
  x,
  y,
  lag.max = NULL,
  type = c("correlation", "covariance"),
  plot = TRUE,
  na.action = na.contiguous,
  ...
)

taperedacf(
  x,
  lag.max = NULL,
  type = c("correlation", "partial"),
  plot = TRUE,
  calc.ci = TRUE,
  level = 95,
  nsim = 100,
  ...
)

taperedpacf(x, ...)

Arguments

x

a univariate or multivariate (not Ccf) numeric time series object or a numeric vector or matrix.

lag.max

maximum lag at which to calculate the acf. Default is $10*log10(N/m)$ where $N$ is the number of observations and $m$ the number of series. Will be automatically limited to one less than the number of observations in the series.

type

character string giving the type of acf to be computed. Allowed values are “correlation” (the default), “covariance” or “partial”.

plot

logical. If TRUE (the default) the resulting acf, pacf or ccf is plotted.

na.action

function to handle missing values. Default is na.contiguous. Useful alternatives are na.pass and na.interp.

demean

Should covariances be about the sample means?

...

Additional arguments passed to the plotting function.

y

a univariate numeric time series object or a numeric vector.

calc.ci

If TRUE, confidence intervals for the ACF/PACF estimates are calculated.

level

Percentage level used for the confidence intervals.

nsim

The number of bootstrap samples used in estimating the confidence intervals.

Details

The functions improve the acf, pacf and ccf functions. The main differences are that Acf does not plot a spike at lag 0 when type=="correlation" (which is redundant) and the horizontal axes show lags in time units rather than seasonal units.

The tapered versions implement the ACF and PACF estimates and plots described in Hyndman (2015), based on the banded and tapered estimates of autocovariance proposed by McMurry and Politis (2010).

Value

The Acf, Pacf and Ccf functions return objects of class "acf" as described in acf from the stats package. The taperedacf and taperedpacf functions return objects of class "mpacf".

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman

References

Hyndman, R.J. (2015). Discussion of “High-dimensional autocovariance matrices and optimal linear prediction”. Electronic Journal of Statistics, 9, 792-796.

McMurry, T. L., & Politis, D. N. (2010). Banded and tapered estimates for autocovariance matrices and the linear process bootstrap. Journal of Time Series Analysis, 31(6), 471-482.

See Also

acf, pacf, ccf, tsdisplay

Examples

Acf(wineind)
Pacf(wineind)
## Not run: 
taperedacf(wineind, nsim=50)
taperedpacf(wineind, nsim=50)

## End(Not run)

Fit a fractionally differenced ARFIMA model

Description

An ARFIMA(p,d,q) model is selected and estimated automatically using the Hyndman-Khandakar (2008) algorithm to select p and q and the Haslett and Raftery (1989) algorithm to estimate the parameters including d.

Usage

arfima(
  y,
  drange = c(0, 0.5),
  estim = c("mle", "ls"),
  model = NULL,
  lambda = NULL,
  biasadj = FALSE,
  x = y,
  ...
)

Arguments

y

a univariate time series (numeric vector).

drange

Allowable values of d to be considered. Default of c(0,0.5) ensures a stationary model is returned.

estim

If estim=="ls", then the ARMA parameters are calculated using the Haslett-Raftery algorithm. If estim=="mle", then the ARMA parameters are calculated using full MLE via the arima function.

model

Output from a previous call to arfima. If model is passed, this same model is fitted to y without re-estimating any parameters.

lambda

Box-Cox transformation parameter. If lambda="auto", then a transformation is automatically selected using BoxCox.lambda. The transformation is ignored if NULL. Otherwise, data transformed before model is estimated.

biasadj

Use adjusted back-transformed mean for Box-Cox transformations. If transformed data is used to produce forecasts and fitted values, a regular back transformation will result in median forecasts. If biasadj is TRUE, an adjustment will be made to produce mean forecasts and fitted values.

x

Deprecated. Included for backwards compatibility.

...

Other arguments passed to auto.arima when selecting p and q.

Details

This function combines fracdiff and auto.arima to automatically select and estimate an ARFIMA model. The fractional differencing parameter is chosen first assuming an ARFIMA(2,d,0) model. Then the data are fractionally differenced using the estimated d and an ARMA model is selected for the resulting time series using auto.arima. Finally, the full ARFIMA(p,d,q) model is re-estimated using fracdiff. If estim=="mle", the ARMA coefficients are refined using arima.

Value

A list object of S3 class "fracdiff", which is described in the fracdiff documentation. A few additional objects are added to the list including x (the original time series), and the residuals and fitted values.

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman and Farah Yasmeen

References

J. Haslett and A. E. Raftery (1989) Space-time Modelling with Long-memory Dependence: Assessing Ireland's Wind Power Resource (with discussion); Applied Statistics 38, 1-50.

Hyndman, R.J. and Khandakar, Y. (2008) "Automatic time series forecasting: The forecast package for R", Journal of Statistical Software, 26(3).

See Also

fracdiff, auto.arima, forecast.fracdiff.

Examples

library(fracdiff)
x <- fracdiff.sim( 100, ma=-.4, d=.3)$series
fit <- arfima(x)
tsdisplay(residuals(fit))

Fit ARIMA model to univariate time series

Description

Largely a wrapper for the arima function in the stats package. The main difference is that this function allows a drift term. It is also possible to take an ARIMA model from a previous call to Arima and re-apply it to the data y.

Usage

Arima(
  y,
  order = c(0, 0, 0),
  seasonal = c(0, 0, 0),
  xreg = NULL,
  include.mean = TRUE,
  include.drift = FALSE,
  include.constant,
  lambda = model$lambda,
  biasadj = FALSE,
  method = c("CSS-ML", "ML", "CSS"),
  model = NULL,
  x = y,
  ...
)

Arguments

y

a univariate time series of class ts.

order

A specification of the non-seasonal part of the ARIMA model: the three components (p, d, q) are the AR order, the degree of differencing, and the MA order.

seasonal

A specification of the seasonal part of the ARIMA model, plus the period (which defaults to frequency(y)). This should be a list with components order and period, but a specification of just a numeric vector of length 3 will be turned into a suitable list with the specification as the order.

xreg

Optionally, a numerical vector or matrix of external regressors, which must have the same number of rows as y. It should not be a data frame.

include.mean

Should the ARIMA model include a mean term? The default is TRUE for undifferenced series, FALSE for differenced ones (where a mean would not affect the fit nor predictions).

include.drift

Should the ARIMA model include a linear drift term? (i.e., a linear regression with ARIMA errors is fitted.) The default is FALSE.

include.constant

If TRUE, then include.mean is set to be TRUE for undifferenced series and include.drift is set to be TRUE for differenced series. Note that if there is more than one difference taken, no constant is included regardless of the value of this argument. This is deliberate as otherwise quadratic and higher order polynomial trends would be induced.

lambda

Box-Cox transformation parameter. If lambda="auto", then a transformation is automatically selected using BoxCox.lambda. The transformation is ignored if NULL. Otherwise, data transformed before model is estimated.

biasadj

Use adjusted back-transformed mean for Box-Cox transformations. If transformed data is used to produce forecasts and fitted values, a regular back transformation will result in median forecasts. If biasadj is TRUE, an adjustment will be made to produce mean forecasts and fitted values.

method

Fitting method: maximum likelihood or minimize conditional sum-of-squares. The default (unless there are missing values) is to use conditional-sum-of-squares to find starting values, then maximum likelihood.

model

Output from a previous call to Arima. If model is passed, this same model is fitted to y without re-estimating any parameters.

x

Deprecated. Included for backwards compatibility.

...

Additional arguments to be passed to arima.

Details

The fitted model is a regression with ARIMA(p,d,q) errors

yt=c+βxt+zty_t = c + \beta' x_t + z_t

where xtx_t is a vector of regressors at time tt and ztz_t is an ARMA(p,d,q) error process. If there are no regressors, and d=0d=0, then c is an estimate of the mean of yty_t. For more information, see Hyndman & Athanasopoulos (2018). For details of the estimation algorithm, see the arima function in the stats package.

Value

See the arima function in the stats package. The additional objects returned are

x

The time series data

xreg

The regressors used in fitting (when relevant).

sigma2

The bias adjusted MLE of the innovations variance.

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman

References

Hyndman, R.J. and Athanasopoulos, G. (2018) "Forecasting: principles and practice", 2nd ed., OTexts, Melbourne, Australia. https://OTexts.com/fpp2/.

See Also

auto.arima, forecast.Arima.

Examples

library(ggplot2)
WWWusage %>%
  Arima(order=c(3,1,0)) %>%
  forecast(h=20) %>%
  autoplot

# Fit model to first few years of AirPassengers data
air.model <- Arima(window(AirPassengers,end=1956+11/12),order=c(0,1,1),
                   seasonal=list(order=c(0,1,1),period=12),lambda=0)
plot(forecast(air.model,h=48))
lines(AirPassengers)

# Apply fitted model to later data
air.model2 <- Arima(window(AirPassengers,start=1957),model=air.model)

# Forecast accuracy measures on the log scale.
# in-sample one-step forecasts.
accuracy(air.model)
# out-of-sample one-step forecasts.
accuracy(air.model2)
# out-of-sample multi-step forecasts
accuracy(forecast(air.model,h=48,lambda=NULL),
         log(window(AirPassengers,start=1957)))

Errors from a regression model with ARIMA errors

Description

Returns time series of the regression residuals from a fitted ARIMA model.

Usage

arima.errors(object)

Arguments

object

An object containing a time series model of class Arima.

Details

This is a deprecated function which is identical to residuals.Arima(object, type="regression") Regression residuals are equal to the original data minus the effect of any regression variables. If there are no regression variables, the errors will be identical to the original series (possibly adjusted to have zero mean).

Value

A ts object

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman

See Also

residuals.Arima.


Return the order of an ARIMA or ARFIMA model

Description

Returns the order of a univariate ARIMA or ARFIMA model.

Usage

arimaorder(object)

Arguments

object

An object of class “Arima”, dQuotear or “fracdiff”. Usually the result of a call to arima, Arima, auto.arima, ar, arfima or fracdiff.

Value

A numerical vector giving the values pp, dd and qq of the ARIMA or ARFIMA model. For a seasonal ARIMA model, the returned vector contains the values pp, dd, qq, PP, DD, QQ and mm, where mm is the period of seasonality.

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman

See Also

ar, auto.arima, Arima, arima, arfima.

Examples

WWWusage %>% auto.arima %>% arimaorder

Fit best ARIMA model to univariate time series

Description

Returns best ARIMA model according to either AIC, AICc or BIC value. The function conducts a search over possible model within the order constraints provided.

Usage

auto.arima(
  y,
  d = NA,
  D = NA,
  max.p = 5,
  max.q = 5,
  max.P = 2,
  max.Q = 2,
  max.order = 5,
  max.d = 2,
  max.D = 1,
  start.p = 2,
  start.q = 2,
  start.P = 1,
  start.Q = 1,
  stationary = FALSE,
  seasonal = TRUE,
  ic = c("aicc", "aic", "bic"),
  stepwise = TRUE,
  nmodels = 94,
  trace = FALSE,
  approximation = (length(x) > 150 | frequency(x) > 12),
  method = NULL,
  truncate = NULL,
  xreg = NULL,
  test = c("kpss", "adf", "pp"),
  test.args = list(),
  seasonal.test = c("seas", "ocsb", "hegy", "ch"),
  seasonal.test.args = list(),
  allowdrift = TRUE,
  allowmean = TRUE,
  lambda = NULL,
  biasadj = FALSE,
  parallel = FALSE,
  num.cores = 2,
  x = y,
  ...
)

Arguments

y

a univariate time series

d

Order of first-differencing. If missing, will choose a value based on test.

D

Order of seasonal-differencing. If missing, will choose a value based on season.test.

max.p

Maximum value of p

max.q

Maximum value of q

max.P

Maximum value of P

max.Q

Maximum value of Q

max.order

Maximum value of p+q+P+Q if model selection is not stepwise.

max.d

Maximum number of non-seasonal differences

max.D

Maximum number of seasonal differences

start.p

Starting value of p in stepwise procedure.

start.q

Starting value of q in stepwise procedure.

start.P

Starting value of P in stepwise procedure.

start.Q

Starting value of Q in stepwise procedure.

stationary

If TRUE, restricts search to stationary models.

seasonal

If FALSE, restricts search to non-seasonal models.

ic

Information criterion to be used in model selection.

stepwise

If TRUE, will do stepwise selection (faster). Otherwise, it searches over all models. Non-stepwise selection can be very slow, especially for seasonal models.

nmodels

Maximum number of models considered in the stepwise search.

trace

If TRUE, the list of ARIMA models considered will be reported.

approximation

If TRUE, estimation is via conditional sums of squares and the information criteria used for model selection are approximated. The final model is still computed using maximum likelihood estimation. Approximation should be used for long time series or a high seasonal period to avoid excessive computation times.

method

fitting method: maximum likelihood or minimize conditional sum-of-squares. The default (unless there are missing values) is to use conditional-sum-of-squares to find starting values, then maximum likelihood. Can be abbreviated.

truncate

An integer value indicating how many observations to use in model selection. The last truncate values of the series are used to select a model when truncate is not NULL and approximation=TRUE. All observations are used if either truncate=NULL or approximation=FALSE.

xreg

Optionally, a numerical vector or matrix of external regressors, which must have the same number of rows as y. (It should not be a data frame.)

test

Type of unit root test to use. See ndiffs for details.

test.args

Additional arguments to be passed to the unit root test.

seasonal.test

This determines which method is used to select the number of seasonal differences. The default method is to use a measure of seasonal strength computed from an STL decomposition. Other possibilities involve seasonal unit root tests.

seasonal.test.args

Additional arguments to be passed to the seasonal unit root test. See nsdiffs for details.

allowdrift

If TRUE, models with drift terms are considered.

allowmean

If TRUE, models with a non-zero mean are considered.

lambda

Box-Cox transformation parameter. If lambda="auto", then a transformation is automatically selected using BoxCox.lambda. The transformation is ignored if NULL. Otherwise, data transformed before model is estimated.

biasadj

Use adjusted back-transformed mean for Box-Cox transformations. If transformed data is used to produce forecasts and fitted values, a regular back transformation will result in median forecasts. If biasadj is TRUE, an adjustment will be made to produce mean forecasts and fitted values.

parallel

If TRUE and stepwise = FALSE, then the specification search is done in parallel. This can give a significant speedup on multicore machines.

num.cores

Allows the user to specify the amount of parallel processes to be used if parallel = TRUE and stepwise = FALSE. If NULL, then the number of logical cores is automatically detected and all available cores are used.

x

Deprecated. Included for backwards compatibility.

...

Additional arguments to be passed to arima.

Details

The default arguments are designed for rapid estimation of models for many time series. If you are analysing just one time series, and can afford to take some more time, it is recommended that you set stepwise=FALSE and approximation=FALSE.

Non-stepwise selection can be slow, especially for seasonal data. The stepwise algorithm outlined in Hyndman & Khandakar (2008) is used except that the default method for selecting seasonal differences is now based on an estimate of seasonal strength (Wang, Smith & Hyndman, 2006) rather than the Canova-Hansen test. There are also some other minor variations to the algorithm described in Hyndman and Khandakar (2008).

Value

Same as for Arima

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman

References

Hyndman, RJ and Khandakar, Y (2008) "Automatic time series forecasting: The forecast package for R", Journal of Statistical Software, 26(3).

Wang, X, Smith, KA, Hyndman, RJ (2006) "Characteristic-based clustering for time series data", Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 13(3), 335-364.

See Also

Arima

Examples

fit <- auto.arima(WWWusage)
plot(forecast(fit,h=20))

Create a ggplot layer appropriate to a particular data type

Description

autolayer() uses ggplot2 to draw a particular layer for an object of a particular class in a single command. This defines the S3 generic that other classes and packages can extend.

Usage

autolayer(object, ...)

Arguments

object

an object, whose class will determine the behaviour of autolayer

...

other arguments passed to specific methods

Value

a ggplot layer

See Also

Other plotting automation topics: automatic_plotting, autoplot(), fortify()


Automatically create a ggplot for time series objects

Description

autoplot takes an object of type ts or mts and creates a ggplot object suitable for usage with stat_forecast.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'mts'
autolayer(object, colour = TRUE, series = NULL, ...)

## S3 method for class 'msts'
autolayer(object, series = NULL, ...)

## S3 method for class 'ts'
autolayer(object, colour = TRUE, series = NULL, ...)

## S3 method for class 'ts'
autoplot(
  object,
  series = NULL,
  xlab = "Time",
  ylab = deparse(substitute(object)),
  main = NULL,
  ...
)

## S3 method for class 'mts'
autoplot(
  object,
  colour = TRUE,
  facets = FALSE,
  xlab = "Time",
  ylab = deparse(substitute(object)),
  main = NULL,
  ...
)

## S3 method for class 'msts'
autoplot(object, ...)

## S3 method for class 'ts'
fortify(model, data, ...)

Arguments

object

Object of class “ts” or “mts”.

colour

If TRUE, the time series will be assigned a colour aesthetic

series

Identifies the time series with a colour, which integrates well with the functionality of geom_forecast.

...

Other plotting parameters to affect the plot.

xlab

X-axis label.

ylab

Y-axis label.

main

Main title.

facets

If TRUE, multiple time series will be faceted (and unless specified, colour is set to FALSE). If FALSE, each series will be assigned a colour.

model

Object of class “ts” to be converted to “data.frame”.

data

Not used (required for fortify method)

Details

fortify.ts takes a ts object and converts it into a data frame (for usage with ggplot2).

Value

None. Function produces a ggplot graph.

Author(s)

Mitchell O'Hara-Wild

See Also

plot.ts, fortify

Examples

library(ggplot2)
autoplot(USAccDeaths)

lungDeaths <- cbind(mdeaths, fdeaths)
autoplot(lungDeaths)
autoplot(lungDeaths, facets=TRUE)

ggplot (Partial) Autocorrelation and Cross-Correlation Function Estimation and Plotting

Description

Produces a ggplot object of their equivalent Acf, Pacf, Ccf, taperedacf and taperedpacf functions.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'acf'
autoplot(object, ci = 0.95, ...)

ggAcf(
  x,
  lag.max = NULL,
  type = c("correlation", "covariance", "partial"),
  plot = TRUE,
  na.action = na.contiguous,
  demean = TRUE,
  ...
)

ggPacf(
  x,
  lag.max = NULL,
  plot = TRUE,
  na.action = na.contiguous,
  demean = TRUE,
  ...
)

ggCcf(
  x,
  y,
  lag.max = NULL,
  type = c("correlation", "covariance"),
  plot = TRUE,
  na.action = na.contiguous,
  ...
)

## S3 method for class 'mpacf'
autoplot(object, ...)

ggtaperedacf(
  x,
  lag.max = NULL,
  type = c("correlation", "partial"),
  plot = TRUE,
  calc.ci = TRUE,
  level = 95,
  nsim = 100,
  ...
)

ggtaperedpacf(x, ...)

Arguments

object

Object of class “acf”.

ci

coverage probability for confidence interval. Plotting of the confidence interval is suppressed if ci is zero or negative.

...

Other plotting parameters to affect the plot.

x

a univariate or multivariate (not Ccf) numeric time series object or a numeric vector or matrix.

lag.max

maximum lag at which to calculate the acf.

type

character string giving the type of acf to be computed. Allowed values are "correlation" (the default), “covariance” or “partial”.

plot

logical. If TRUE (the default) the resulting ACF, PACF or CCF is plotted.

na.action

function to handle missing values. Default is na.contiguous. Useful alternatives are na.pass and na.interp.

demean

Should covariances be about the sample means?

y

a univariate numeric time series object or a numeric vector.

calc.ci

If TRUE, confidence intervals for the ACF/PACF estimates are calculated.

level

Percentage level used for the confidence intervals.

nsim

The number of bootstrap samples used in estimating the confidence intervals.

Details

If autoplot is given an acf or mpacf object, then an appropriate ggplot object will be created.

ggtaperedpacf

Value

A ggplot object.

Author(s)

Mitchell O'Hara-Wild

See Also

plot.acf, Acf, acf, taperedacf

Examples

library(ggplot2)
ggAcf(wineind)
wineind %>% Acf(plot=FALSE) %>% autoplot
## Not run: 
wineind %>% taperedacf(plot=FALSE) %>% autoplot
ggtaperedacf(wineind)
ggtaperedpacf(wineind)
## End(Not run)
ggCcf(mdeaths, fdeaths)

Plot time series decomposition components using ggplot

Description

Produces a ggplot object of seasonally decomposed time series for objects of class “stl” (created with stl), class “seas” (created with seas), or class “decomposed.ts” (created with decompose).

Usage

## S3 method for class 'decomposed.ts'
autoplot(object, labels = NULL, range.bars = NULL, ...)

## S3 method for class 'stl'
autoplot(object, labels = NULL, range.bars = TRUE, ...)

## S3 method for class 'StructTS'
autoplot(object, labels = NULL, range.bars = TRUE, ...)

## S3 method for class 'seas'
autoplot(object, labels = NULL, range.bars = NULL, ...)

## S3 method for class 'mstl'
autoplot(object, ...)

Arguments

object

Object of class “seas”, “stl”, or “decomposed.ts”.

labels

Labels to replace “seasonal”, “trend”, and “remainder”.

range.bars

Logical indicating if each plot should have a bar at its right side representing relative size. If NULL, automatic selection takes place.

...

Other plotting parameters to affect the plot.

Value

Returns an object of class ggplot.

Author(s)

Mitchell O'Hara-Wild

See Also

seas, stl, decompose, StructTS, plot.stl.

Examples

library(ggplot2)
co2 %>%
  decompose() %>%
  autoplot()
nottem %>%
  stl(s.window = "periodic") %>%
  autoplot()
## Not run: 
library(seasonal)
seas(USAccDeaths) %>% autoplot()

## End(Not run)

Multivariate forecast plot

Description

Plots historical data with multivariate forecasts and prediction intervals.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'mforecast'
autoplot(object, PI = TRUE, facets = TRUE, colour = FALSE, ...)

## S3 method for class 'mforecast'
autolayer(object, series = NULL, PI = TRUE, ...)

## S3 method for class 'mforecast'
plot(x, main = paste("Forecasts from", unique(x$method)), xlab = "time", ...)

Arguments

object

Multivariate forecast object of class mforecast. Used for ggplot graphics (S3 method consistency).

PI

If FALSE, confidence intervals will not be plotted, giving only the forecast line.

facets

If TRUE, multiple time series will be faceted. If FALSE, each series will be assigned a colour.

colour

If TRUE, the time series will be assigned a colour aesthetic

...

additional arguments to each individual plot.

series

Matches an unidentified forecast layer with a coloured object on the plot.

x

Multivariate forecast object of class mforecast.

main

Main title. Default is the forecast method. For autoplot, specify a vector of titles for each plot.

xlab

X-axis label. For autoplot, specify a vector of labels for each plot.

Details

autoplot will produce an equivalent plot as a ggplot object.

Author(s)

Mitchell O'Hara-Wild

References

Hyndman and Athanasopoulos (2018) Forecasting: principles and practice, 2nd edition, OTexts: Melbourne, Australia. https://otexts.com/fpp2/

See Also

plot.forecast, plot.ts

Examples

library(ggplot2)

lungDeaths <- cbind(mdeaths, fdeaths)
fit <- tslm(lungDeaths ~ trend + season)
fcast <- forecast(fit, h=10)
plot(fcast)
autoplot(fcast)

carPower <- as.matrix(mtcars[,c("qsec","hp")])
carmpg <- mtcars[,"mpg"]
fit <- lm(carPower ~ carmpg)
fcast <- forecast(fit, newdata=data.frame(carmpg=30))
plot(fcast, xlab="Year")
autoplot(fcast, xlab=rep("Year",2))

Forecasting using a bagged model

Description

The bagged model forecasting method.

Usage

baggedModel(y, bootstrapped_series = bld.mbb.bootstrap(y, 100), fn = ets, ...)

baggedETS(y, bootstrapped_series = bld.mbb.bootstrap(y, 100), ...)

Arguments

y

A numeric vector or time series of class ts.

bootstrapped_series

bootstrapped versions of y.

fn

the forecast function to use. Default is ets.

...

Other arguments passed to the forecast function.

Details

This function implements the bagged model forecasting method described in Bergmeir et al. By default, the ets function is applied to all bootstrapped series. Base models other than ets can be given by the parameter fn. Using the default parameters, the function bld.mbb.bootstrap is used to calculate the bootstrapped series with the Box-Cox and Loess-based decomposition (BLD) bootstrap. The function forecast.baggedModel can then be used to calculate forecasts.

baggedETS is a wrapper for baggedModel, setting fn to "ets". This function is included for backwards compatibility only, and may be deprecated in the future.

Value

Returns an object of class "baggedModel".

The function print is used to obtain and print a summary of the results.

models

A list containing the fitted ensemble models.

method

The function for producing a forecastable model.

y

The original time series.

bootstrapped_series

The bootstrapped series.

modelargs

The arguments passed through to fn.

fitted

Fitted values (one-step forecasts). The mean of the fitted values is calculated over the ensemble.

residuals

Original values minus fitted values.

Author(s)

Christoph Bergmeir, Fotios Petropoulos

References

Bergmeir, C., R. J. Hyndman, and J. M. Benitez (2016). Bagging Exponential Smoothing Methods using STL Decomposition and Box-Cox Transformation. International Journal of Forecasting 32, 303-312.

Examples

fit <- baggedModel(WWWusage)
fcast <- forecast(fit)
plot(fcast)

BATS model (Exponential smoothing state space model with Box-Cox transformation, ARMA errors, Trend and Seasonal components)

Description

Fits a BATS model applied to y, as described in De Livera, Hyndman & Snyder (2011). Parallel processing is used by default to speed up the computations.

Usage

bats(
  y,
  use.box.cox = NULL,
  use.trend = NULL,
  use.damped.trend = NULL,
  seasonal.periods = NULL,
  use.arma.errors = TRUE,
  use.parallel = length(y) > 1000,
  num.cores = 2,
  bc.lower = 0,
  bc.upper = 1,
  biasadj = FALSE,
  model = NULL,
  ...
)

Arguments

y

The time series to be forecast. Can be numeric, msts or ts. Only univariate time series are supported.

use.box.cox

TRUE/FALSE indicates whether to use the Box-Cox transformation or not. If NULL then both are tried and the best fit is selected by AIC.

use.trend

TRUE/FALSE indicates whether to include a trend or not. If NULL then both are tried and the best fit is selected by AIC.

use.damped.trend

TRUE/FALSE indicates whether to include a damping parameter in the trend or not. If NULL then both are tried and the best fit is selected by AIC.

seasonal.periods

If y is a numeric then seasonal periods can be specified with this parameter.

use.arma.errors

TRUE/FALSE indicates whether to include ARMA errors or not. If TRUE the best fit is selected by AIC. If FALSE then the selection algorithm does not consider ARMA errors.

use.parallel

TRUE/FALSE indicates whether or not to use parallel processing.

num.cores

The number of parallel processes to be used if using parallel processing. If NULL then the number of logical cores is detected and all available cores are used.

bc.lower

The lower limit (inclusive) for the Box-Cox transformation.

bc.upper

The upper limit (inclusive) for the Box-Cox transformation.

biasadj

Use adjusted back-transformed mean for Box-Cox transformations. If TRUE, point forecasts and fitted values are mean forecast. Otherwise, these points can be considered the median of the forecast densities.

model

Output from a previous call to bats. If model is passed, this same model is fitted to y without re-estimating any parameters.

...

Additional arguments to be passed to auto.arima when choose an ARMA(p, q) model for the errors. (Note that xreg will be ignored, as will any arguments concerning seasonality and differencing, but arguments controlling the values of p and q will be used.)

Value

An object of class "bats". The generic accessor functions fitted.values and residuals extract useful features of the value returned by bats and associated functions. The fitted model is designated BATS(omega, p,q, phi, m1,...mJ) where omega is the Box-Cox parameter and phi is the damping parameter; the error is modelled as an ARMA(p,q) process and m1,...,mJ list the seasonal periods used in the model.

Author(s)

Slava Razbash and Rob J Hyndman

References

De Livera, A.M., Hyndman, R.J., & Snyder, R. D. (2011), Forecasting time series with complex seasonal patterns using exponential smoothing, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 106(496), 1513-1527.

Examples

## Not run: 
fit <- bats(USAccDeaths)
plot(forecast(fit))

taylor.fit <- bats(taylor)
plot(forecast(taylor.fit))

## End(Not run)

Number of trading days in each season

Description

Returns number of trading days in each month or quarter of the observed time period in a major financial center.

Usage

bizdays(x, FinCenter = c("New York", "London", "NERC", "Toronto", "Zurich"))

Arguments

x

Monthly or quarterly time series

FinCenter

Major financial center.

Details

Useful for trading days length adjustments. More on how to define "business days", please refer to isBizday.

Value

Time series

Author(s)

Earo Wang

See Also

monthdays

Examples

x <- ts(rnorm(30), start = c(2013, 2), frequency = 12)
bizdays(x, FinCenter = "New York")

Box-Cox and Loess-based decomposition bootstrap.

Description

Generates bootstrapped versions of a time series using the Box-Cox and Loess-based decomposition bootstrap.

Usage

bld.mbb.bootstrap(x, num, block_size = NULL)

Arguments

x

Original time series.

num

Number of bootstrapped versions to generate.

block_size

Block size for the moving block bootstrap.

Details

The procedure is described in Bergmeir et al. Box-Cox decomposition is applied, together with STL or Loess (for non-seasonal time series), and the remainder is bootstrapped using a moving block bootstrap.

Value

A list with bootstrapped versions of the series. The first series in the list is the original series.

Author(s)

Christoph Bergmeir, Fotios Petropoulos

References

Bergmeir, C., R. J. Hyndman, and J. M. Benitez (2016). Bagging Exponential Smoothing Methods using STL Decomposition and Box-Cox Transformation. International Journal of Forecasting 32, 303-312.

See Also

baggedETS.

Examples

bootstrapped_series <- bld.mbb.bootstrap(WWWusage, 100)

Box Cox Transformation

Description

BoxCox() returns a transformation of the input variable using a Box-Cox transformation. InvBoxCox() reverses the transformation.

Usage

BoxCox(x, lambda)

InvBoxCox(x, lambda, biasadj = FALSE, fvar = NULL)

Arguments

x

a numeric vector or time series of class ts.

lambda

transformation parameter. If lambda = "auto", then the transformation parameter lambda is chosen using BoxCox.lambda (with a lower bound of -0.9)

biasadj

Use adjusted back-transformed mean for Box-Cox transformations. If transformed data is used to produce forecasts and fitted values, a regular back transformation will result in median forecasts. If biasadj is TRUE, an adjustment will be made to produce mean forecasts and fitted values.

fvar

Optional parameter required if biasadj=TRUE. Can either be the forecast variance, or a list containing the interval level, and the corresponding upper and lower intervals.

Details

The Box-Cox transformation (as given by Bickel & Doksum 1981) is given by

fλ(x)=(sign(x)xλ1)/λf_\lambda(x) =(sign(x)|x|^\lambda - 1)/\lambda

if λ0\lambda\ne0. For λ=0\lambda=0,

f0(x)=log(x)f_0(x)=\log(x)

.

Value

a numeric vector of the same length as x.

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman & Mitchell O'Hara-Wild

References

Box, G. E. P. and Cox, D. R. (1964) An analysis of transformations. JRSS B 26 211–246. Bickel, P. J. and Doksum K. A. (1981) An Analysis of Transformations Revisited. JASA 76 296-311.

See Also

BoxCox.lambda

Examples

lambda <- BoxCox.lambda(lynx)
lynx.fit <- ar(BoxCox(lynx,lambda))
plot(forecast(lynx.fit,h=20,lambda=lambda))

Automatic selection of Box Cox transformation parameter

Description

If method=="guerrero", Guerrero's (1993) method is used, where lambda minimizes the coefficient of variation for subseries of x.

Usage

BoxCox.lambda(x, method = c("guerrero", "loglik"), lower = -1, upper = 2)

Arguments

x

a numeric vector or time series of class ts

method

Choose method to be used in calculating lambda.

lower

Lower limit for possible lambda values.

upper

Upper limit for possible lambda values.

Details

If method=="loglik", the value of lambda is chosen to maximize the profile log likelihood of a linear model fitted to x. For non-seasonal data, a linear time trend is fitted while for seasonal data, a linear time trend with seasonal dummy variables is used.

Value

a number indicating the Box-Cox transformation parameter.

Author(s)

Leanne Chhay and Rob J Hyndman

References

Box, G. E. P. and Cox, D. R. (1964) An analysis of transformations. JRSS B 26 211–246.

Guerrero, V.M. (1993) Time-series analysis supported by power transformations. Journal of Forecasting, 12, 37–48.

See Also

BoxCox

Examples

lambda <- BoxCox.lambda(AirPassengers,lower=0)
air.fit <- Arima(AirPassengers, order=c(0,1,1),
                 seasonal=list(order=c(0,1,1),period=12), lambda=lambda)
plot(forecast(air.fit))

Check that residuals from a time series model look like white noise

Description

If plot=TRUE, produces a time plot of the residuals, the corresponding ACF, and a histogram. If test is not FALSE, the output from either a Ljung-Box test or Breusch-Godfrey test is printed.

Usage

checkresiduals(object, lag, test, plot = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

object

Either a time series model, a forecast object, or a time series (assumed to be residuals).

lag

Number of lags to use in the Ljung-Box or Breusch-Godfrey test. If missing, it is set to min(10,n/5) for non-seasonal data, and min(2m, n/5) for seasonal data, where n is the length of the series, and m is the seasonal period of the data. It is further constrained to be at least df+3 where df is the degrees of freedom of the model. This ensures there are at least 3 degrees of freedom used in the chi-squared test.

test

Test to use for serial correlation. By default, if object is of class lm, then test="BG". Otherwise, test="LB". Setting test=FALSE will prevent the test results being printed.

plot

Logical. If TRUE, will produce the plot.

...

Other arguments are passed to ggtsdisplay.

Value

None

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman

See Also

ggtsdisplay, Box.test, bgtest

Examples

fit <- ets(WWWusage)
checkresiduals(fit)

Forecasts for intermittent demand using Croston's method

Description

Returns forecasts and other information for Croston's forecasts applied to y.

Usage

croston(y, h = 10, alpha = 0.1, x = y)

Arguments

y

a numeric vector or time series of class ts

h

Number of periods for forecasting.

alpha

Value of alpha. Default value is 0.1.

x

Deprecated. Included for backwards compatibility.

Details

Based on Croston's (1972) method for intermittent demand forecasting, also described in Shenstone and Hyndman (2005). Croston's method involves using simple exponential smoothing (SES) on the non-zero elements of the time series and a separate application of SES to the times between non-zero elements of the time series. The smoothing parameters of the two applications of SES are assumed to be equal and are denoted by alpha.

Note that prediction intervals are not computed as Croston's method has no underlying stochastic model.

Value

An object of class "forecast" is a list containing at least the following elements:

model

A list containing information about the fitted model. The first element gives the model used for non-zero demands. The second element gives the model used for times between non-zero demands. Both elements are of class forecast.

method

The name of the forecasting method as a character string

mean

Point forecasts as a time series

x

The original time series (either object itself or the time series used to create the model stored as object).

residuals

Residuals from the fitted model. That is y minus fitted values.

fitted

Fitted values (one-step forecasts)

The function summary is used to obtain and print a summary of the results, while the function plot produces a plot of the forecasts.

The generic accessor functions fitted.values and residuals extract useful features of the value returned by croston and associated functions.

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman

References

Croston, J. (1972) "Forecasting and stock control for intermittent demands", Operational Research Quarterly, 23(3), 289-303.

Shenstone, L., and Hyndman, R.J. (2005) "Stochastic models underlying Croston's method for intermittent demand forecasting". Journal of Forecasting, 24, 389-402.

See Also

ses.

Examples

y <- rpois(20,lambda=.3)
fcast <- croston(y)
plot(fcast)

Cross-validation statistic

Description

Computes the leave-one-out cross-validation statistic (the mean of PRESS – prediction residual sum of squares), AIC, corrected AIC, BIC and adjusted R^2 values for a linear model.

Usage

CV(obj)

Arguments

obj

output from lm or tslm

Value

Numerical vector containing CV, AIC, AICc, BIC and AdjR2 values.

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman

See Also

AIC

Examples

y <- ts(rnorm(120,0,3) + 20*sin(2*pi*(1:120)/12), frequency=12)
fit1 <- tslm(y ~ trend + season)
fit2 <- tslm(y ~ season)
CV(fit1)
CV(fit2)

k-fold Cross-Validation applied to an autoregressive model

Description

CVar computes the errors obtained by applying an autoregressive modelling function to subsets of the time series y using k-fold cross-validation as described in Bergmeir, Hyndman and Koo (2015). It also applies a Ljung-Box test to the residuals. If this test is significant (see returned pvalue), there is serial correlation in the residuals and the model can be considered to be underfitting the data. In this case, the cross-validated errors can underestimate the generalization error and should not be used.

Usage

CVar(
  y,
  k = 10,
  FUN = nnetar,
  cvtrace = FALSE,
  blocked = FALSE,
  LBlags = 24,
  ...
)

Arguments

y

Univariate time series

k

Number of folds to use for cross-validation.

FUN

Function to fit an autoregressive model. Currently, it only works with the nnetar function.

cvtrace

Provide progress information.

blocked

choose folds randomly or as blocks?

LBlags

lags for the Ljung-Box test, defaults to 24, for yearly series can be set to 20

...

Other arguments are passed to FUN.

Value

A list containing information about the model and accuracy for each fold, plus other summary information computed across folds.

Author(s)

Gabriel Caceres and Rob J Hyndman

References

Bergmeir, C., Hyndman, R.J., Koo, B. (2018) A note on the validity of cross-validation for evaluating time series prediction. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 120, 70-83. https://robjhyndman.com/publications/cv-time-series/.

See Also

CV, tsCV.

Examples

modelcv <- CVar(lynx, k=5, lambda=0.15)
print(modelcv)
print(modelcv$fold1)

library(ggplot2)
autoplot(lynx, series="Data") +
  autolayer(modelcv$testfit, series="Fits") +
  autolayer(modelcv$residuals, series="Residuals")
ggAcf(modelcv$residuals)

Diebold-Mariano test for predictive accuracy

Description

The Diebold-Mariano test compares the forecast accuracy of two forecast methods.

Usage

dm.test(
  e1,
  e2,
  alternative = c("two.sided", "less", "greater"),
  h = 1,
  power = 2,
  varestimator = c("acf", "bartlett")
)

Arguments

e1

Forecast errors from method 1.

e2

Forecast errors from method 2.

alternative

a character string specifying the alternative hypothesis, must be one of "two.sided" (default), "greater" or "less". You can specify just the initial letter.

h

The forecast horizon used in calculating e1 and e2.

power

The power used in the loss function. Usually 1 or 2.

varestimator

a character string specifying the long-run variance estimator. Options are "acf" (default) or "bartlett".

Details

This function implements the modified test proposed by Harvey, Leybourne and Newbold (1997). The null hypothesis is that the two methods have the same forecast accuracy. For alternative="less", the alternative hypothesis is that method 2 is less accurate than method 1. For alternative="greater", the alternative hypothesis is that method 2 is more accurate than method 1. For alternative="two.sided", the alternative hypothesis is that method 1 and method 2 have different levels of accuracy. The long-run variance estimator can either the auto-correlation estimator varestimator = "acf", or the estimator based on Bartlett weights varestimator = "bartlett" which ensures a positive estimate. Both long-run variance estimators are proposed in Diebold and Mariano (1995).

Value

A list with class "htest" containing the following components:

statistic

the value of the DM-statistic.

parameter

the forecast horizon and loss function power used in the test.

alternative

a character string describing the alternative hypothesis.

varestimator

a character string describing the long-run variance estimator.

p.value

the p-value for the test.

method

a character string with the value "Diebold-Mariano Test".

data.name

a character vector giving the names of the two error series.

Author(s)

George Athanasopoulos and Kirill Kuroptev

References

Diebold, F.X. and Mariano, R.S. (1995) Comparing predictive accuracy. Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 13, 253-263.

Harvey, D., Leybourne, S., & Newbold, P. (1997). Testing the equality of prediction mean squared errors. International Journal of forecasting, 13(2), 281-291.

Examples

# Test on in-sample one-step forecasts
f1 <- ets(WWWusage)
f2 <- auto.arima(WWWusage)
accuracy(f1)
accuracy(f2)
dm.test(residuals(f1), residuals(f2), h = 1)

# Test on out-of-sample one-step forecasts
f1 <- ets(WWWusage[1:80])
f2 <- auto.arima(WWWusage[1:80])
f1.out <- ets(WWWusage[81:100], model = f1)
f2.out <- Arima(WWWusage[81:100], model = f2)
accuracy(f1.out)
accuracy(f2.out)
dm.test(residuals(f1.out), residuals(f2.out), h = 1)

Double-Seasonal Holt-Winters Forecasting

Description

Returns forecasts using Taylor's (2003) Double-Seasonal Holt-Winters method.

Usage

dshw(
  y,
  period1 = NULL,
  period2 = NULL,
  h = 2 * max(period1, period2),
  alpha = NULL,
  beta = NULL,
  gamma = NULL,
  omega = NULL,
  phi = NULL,
  lambda = NULL,
  biasadj = FALSE,
  armethod = TRUE,
  model = NULL
)

Arguments

y

Either an msts object with two seasonal periods or a numeric vector.

period1

Period of the shorter seasonal period. Only used if y is not an msts object.

period2

Period of the longer seasonal period. Only used if y is not an msts object.

h

Number of periods for forecasting.

alpha

Smoothing parameter for the level. If NULL, the parameter is estimated using least squares.

beta

Smoothing parameter for the slope. If NULL, the parameter is estimated using least squares.

gamma

Smoothing parameter for the first seasonal period. If NULL, the parameter is estimated using least squares.

omega

Smoothing parameter for the second seasonal period. If NULL, the parameter is estimated using least squares.

phi

Autoregressive parameter. If NULL, the parameter is estimated using least squares.

lambda

Box-Cox transformation parameter. If lambda="auto", then a transformation is automatically selected using BoxCox.lambda. The transformation is ignored if NULL. Otherwise, data transformed before model is estimated.

biasadj

Use adjusted back-transformed mean for Box-Cox transformations. If transformed data is used to produce forecasts and fitted values, a regular back transformation will result in median forecasts. If biasadj is TRUE, an adjustment will be made to produce mean forecasts and fitted values.

armethod

If TRUE, the forecasts are adjusted using an AR(1) model for the errors.

model

If it's specified, an existing model is applied to a new data set.

Details

Taylor's (2003) double-seasonal Holt-Winters method uses additive trend and multiplicative seasonality, where there are two seasonal components which are multiplied together. For example, with a series of half-hourly data, one would set period1=48 for the daily period and period2=336 for the weekly period. The smoothing parameter notation used here is different from that in Taylor (2003); instead it matches that used in Hyndman et al (2008) and that used for the ets function.

Value

An object of class "forecast" which is a list that includes the following elements:

model

A list containing information about the fitted model

method

The name of the forecasting method as a character string

mean

Point forecasts as a time series

x

The original time series.

residuals

Residuals from the fitted model. That is x minus fitted values.

fitted

Fitted values (one-step forecasts)

The function summary is used to obtain and print a summary of the results, while the function plot produces a plot of the forecasts.

The generic accessor functions fitted.values and residuals extract useful features of the value returned by dshw.

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman

References

Taylor, J.W. (2003) Short-term electricity demand forecasting using double seasonal exponential smoothing. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 54, 799-805.

Hyndman, R.J., Koehler, A.B., Ord, J.K., and Snyder, R.D. (2008) Forecasting with exponential smoothing: the state space approach, Springer-Verlag. http://www.exponentialsmoothing.net.

See Also

HoltWinters, ets.

Examples

## Not run: 
fcast <- dshw(taylor)
plot(fcast)

t <- seq(0,5,by=1/20)
x <- exp(sin(2*pi*t) + cos(2*pi*t*4) + rnorm(length(t),0,.1))
fit <- dshw(x,20,5)
plot(fit)

## End(Not run)

Easter holidays in each season

Description

Returns a vector of 0's and 1's or fractional results if Easter spans March and April in the observed time period. Easter is defined as the days from Good Friday to Easter Sunday inclusively, plus optionally Easter Monday if easter.mon=TRUE.

Usage

easter(x, easter.mon = FALSE)

Arguments

x

Monthly or quarterly time series

easter.mon

If TRUE, the length of Easter holidays includes Easter Monday.

Details

Useful for adjusting calendar effects.

Value

Time series

Author(s)

Earo Wang

Examples

easter(wineind, easter.mon = TRUE)

Exponential smoothing state space model

Description

Returns ets model applied to y.

Usage

ets(
  y,
  model = "ZZZ",
  damped = NULL,
  alpha = NULL,
  beta = NULL,
  gamma = NULL,
  phi = NULL,
  additive.only = FALSE,
  lambda = NULL,
  biasadj = FALSE,
  lower = c(rep(1e-04, 3), 0.8),
  upper = c(rep(0.9999, 3), 0.98),
  opt.crit = c("lik", "amse", "mse", "sigma", "mae"),
  nmse = 3,
  bounds = c("both", "usual", "admissible"),
  ic = c("aicc", "aic", "bic"),
  restrict = TRUE,
  allow.multiplicative.trend = FALSE,
  use.initial.values = FALSE,
  na.action = c("na.contiguous", "na.interp", "na.fail"),
  ...
)

Arguments

y

a numeric vector or time series of class ts

model

Usually a three-character string identifying method using the framework terminology of Hyndman et al. (2002) and Hyndman et al. (2008). The first letter denotes the error type ("A", "M" or "Z"); the second letter denotes the trend type ("N","A","M" or "Z"); and the third letter denotes the season type ("N","A","M" or "Z"). In all cases, "N"=none, "A"=additive, "M"=multiplicative and "Z"=automatically selected. So, for example, "ANN" is simple exponential smoothing with additive errors, "MAM" is multiplicative Holt-Winters' method with multiplicative errors, and so on.

It is also possible for the model to be of class "ets", and equal to the output from a previous call to ets. In this case, the same model is fitted to y without re-estimating any smoothing parameters. See also the use.initial.values argument.

damped

If TRUE, use a damped trend (either additive or multiplicative). If NULL, both damped and non-damped trends will be tried and the best model (according to the information criterion ic) returned.

alpha

Value of alpha. If NULL, it is estimated.

beta

Value of beta. If NULL, it is estimated.

gamma

Value of gamma. If NULL, it is estimated.

phi

Value of phi. If NULL, it is estimated.

additive.only

If TRUE, will only consider additive models. Default is FALSE.

lambda

Box-Cox transformation parameter. If lambda="auto", then a transformation is automatically selected using BoxCox.lambda. The transformation is ignored if NULL. Otherwise, data transformed before model is estimated. When lambda is specified, additive.only is set to TRUE.

biasadj

Use adjusted back-transformed mean for Box-Cox transformations. If transformed data is used to produce forecasts and fitted values, a regular back transformation will result in median forecasts. If biasadj is TRUE, an adjustment will be made to produce mean forecasts and fitted values.

lower

Lower bounds for the parameters (alpha, beta, gamma, phi). Ignored if bounds=="admissible".

upper

Upper bounds for the parameters (alpha, beta, gamma, phi). Ignored if bounds=="admissible".

opt.crit

Optimization criterion. One of "mse" (Mean Square Error), "amse" (Average MSE over first nmse forecast horizons), "sigma" (Standard deviation of residuals), "mae" (Mean of absolute residuals), or "lik" (Log-likelihood, the default).

nmse

Number of steps for average multistep MSE (1<=nmse<=30).

bounds

Type of parameter space to impose: "usual" indicates all parameters must lie between specified lower and upper bounds; "admissible" indicates parameters must lie in the admissible space; "both" (default) takes the intersection of these regions.

ic

Information criterion to be used in model selection.

restrict

If TRUE (default), the models with infinite variance will not be allowed.

allow.multiplicative.trend

If TRUE, models with multiplicative trend are allowed when searching for a model. Otherwise, the model space excludes them. This argument is ignored if a multiplicative trend model is explicitly requested (e.g., using model="MMN").

use.initial.values

If TRUE and model is of class "ets", then the initial values in the model are also not re-estimated.

na.action

A function which indicates what should happen when the data contains NA values. By default, the largest contiguous portion of the time-series will be used.

...

Other undocumented arguments.

Details

Based on the classification of methods as described in Hyndman et al (2008).

The methodology is fully automatic. The only required argument for ets is the time series. The model is chosen automatically if not specified. This methodology performed extremely well on the M3-competition data. (See Hyndman, et al, 2002, below.)

Value

An object of class "ets".

The generic accessor functions fitted.values and residuals extract useful features of the value returned by ets and associated functions.

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman

References

Hyndman, R.J., Koehler, A.B., Snyder, R.D., and Grose, S. (2002) "A state space framework for automatic forecasting using exponential smoothing methods", International J. Forecasting, 18(3), 439–454.

Hyndman, R.J., Akram, Md., and Archibald, B. (2008) "The admissible parameter space for exponential smoothing models". Annals of Statistical Mathematics, 60(2), 407–426.

Hyndman, R.J., Koehler, A.B., Ord, J.K., and Snyder, R.D. (2008) Forecasting with exponential smoothing: the state space approach, Springer-Verlag. http://www.exponentialsmoothing.net.

See Also

HoltWinters, rwf, Arima.

Examples

fit <- ets(USAccDeaths)
plot(forecast(fit))

Find dominant frequency of a time series

Description

findfrequency returns the period of the dominant frequency of a time series. For seasonal data, it will return the seasonal period. For cyclic data, it will return the average cycle length.

Usage

findfrequency(x)

Arguments

x

a numeric vector or time series of class ts

Details

The dominant frequency is determined from a spectral analysis of the time series. First, a linear trend is removed, then the spectral density function is estimated from the best fitting autoregressive model (based on the AIC). If there is a large (possibly local) maximum in the spectral density function at frequency ff, then the function will return the period 1/f1/f (rounded to the nearest integer). If no such dominant frequency can be found, the function will return 1.

Value

an integer value

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman

Examples

findfrequency(USAccDeaths) # Monthly data
findfrequency(taylor) # Half-hourly data
findfrequency(lynx) # Annual data

h-step in-sample forecasts for time series models.

Description

Returns h-step forecasts for the data used in fitting the model.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'ARFIMA'
fitted(object, h = 1, ...)

## S3 method for class 'Arima'
fitted(object, h = 1, ...)

## S3 method for class 'ar'
fitted(object, ...)

## S3 method for class 'bats'
fitted(object, h = 1, ...)

## S3 method for class 'ets'
fitted(object, h = 1, ...)

## S3 method for class 'modelAR'
fitted(object, h = 1, ...)

## S3 method for class 'nnetar'
fitted(object, h = 1, ...)

## S3 method for class 'tbats'
fitted(object, h = 1, ...)

Arguments

object

An object of class "Arima", "bats", "tbats", "ets" or "nnetar".

h

The number of steps to forecast ahead.

...

Other arguments.

Value

A time series of the h-step forecasts.

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman & Mitchell O'Hara-Wild

See Also

forecast.Arima, forecast.bats, forecast.tbats, forecast.ets, forecast.nnetar, residuals.Arima, residuals.bats, residuals.tbats, residuals.ets, residuals.nnetar.

Examples

fit <- ets(WWWusage)
plot(WWWusage)
lines(fitted(fit), col='red')
lines(fitted(fit, h=2), col='green')
lines(fitted(fit, h=3), col='blue')
legend("topleft", legend=paste("h =",1:3), col=2:4, lty=1)

Forecasting using a bagged model

Description

Returns forecasts and other information for bagged models.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'baggedModel'
forecast(
  object,
  h = ifelse(frequency(object$y) > 1, 2 * frequency(object$y), 10),
  ...
)

Arguments

object

An object of class "baggedModel" resulting from a call to baggedModel.

h

Number of periods for forecasting.

...

Other arguments, passed on to the forecast function of the original method

Details

Intervals are calculated as min and max values over the point forecasts from the models in the ensemble. I.e., the intervals are not prediction intervals, but give an indication of how different the forecasts within the ensemble are.

Value

An object of class "forecast".

The function summary is used to obtain and print a summary of the results, while the function plot produces a plot of the forecasts and prediction intervals.

An object of class "forecast" is a list containing at least the following elements:

model

A list containing information about the fitted model

method

The name of the forecasting method as a character string

mean

Point forecasts as a time series

lower

Lower limits for prediction intervals

upper

Upper limits for prediction intervals

level

The confidence values associated with the prediction intervals

x

The original time series (either object itself or the time series used to create the model stored as object).

xreg

The external regressors used in fitting (if given).

residuals

Residuals from the fitted model. That is x minus fitted values.

fitted

Fitted values (one-step forecasts)

Author(s)

Christoph Bergmeir, Fotios Petropoulos

References

Bergmeir, C., R. J. Hyndman, and J. M. Benitez (2016). Bagging Exponential Smoothing Methods using STL Decomposition and Box-Cox Transformation. International Journal of Forecasting 32, 303-312.

See Also

baggedModel.

Examples

fit <- baggedModel(WWWusage)
fcast <- forecast(fit)
plot(fcast)

## Not run: 
fit2 <- baggedModel(WWWusage, fn="auto.arima")
fcast2 <- forecast(fit2)
plot(fcast2)
accuracy(fcast2)
## End(Not run)

Forecasting using BATS and TBATS models

Description

Forecasts h steps ahead with a BATS model. Prediction intervals are also produced.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'bats'
forecast(object, h, level = c(80, 95), fan = FALSE, biasadj = NULL, ...)

## S3 method for class 'tbats'
forecast(object, h, level = c(80, 95), fan = FALSE, biasadj = NULL, ...)

Arguments

object

An object of class "bats". Usually the result of a call to bats.

h

Number of periods for forecasting. Default value is twice the largest seasonal period (for seasonal data) or ten (for non-seasonal data).

level

Confidence level for prediction intervals.

fan

If TRUE, level is set to seq(51,99,by=3). This is suitable for fan plots.

biasadj

Use adjusted back-transformed mean for Box-Cox transformations. If TRUE, point forecasts and fitted values are mean forecast. Otherwise, these points can be considered the median of the forecast densities.

...

Other arguments, currently ignored.

Value

An object of class "forecast".

The function summary is used to obtain and print a summary of the results, while the function plot produces a plot of the forecasts and prediction intervals.

The generic accessor functions fitted.values and residuals extract useful features of the value returned by forecast.bats.

An object of class "forecast" is a list containing at least the following elements:

model

A copy of the bats object

method

The name of the forecasting method as a character string

mean

Point forecasts as a time series

lower

Lower limits for prediction intervals

upper

Upper limits for prediction intervals

level

The confidence values associated with the prediction intervals

x

The original time series (either object itself or the time series used to create the model stored as object).

residuals

Residuals from the fitted model.

fitted

Fitted values (one-step forecasts)

Author(s)

Slava Razbash and Rob J Hyndman

References

De Livera, A.M., Hyndman, R.J., & Snyder, R. D. (2011), Forecasting time series with complex seasonal patterns using exponential smoothing, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 106(496), 1513-1527.

See Also

bats, tbats,forecast.ets.

Examples

## Not run: 
fit <- bats(USAccDeaths)
plot(forecast(fit))

taylor.fit <- bats(taylor)
plot(forecast(taylor.fit))

## End(Not run)

Forecasting using ETS models

Description

Returns forecasts and other information for univariate ETS models.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'ets'
forecast(
  object,
  h = ifelse(object$m > 1, 2 * object$m, 10),
  level = c(80, 95),
  fan = FALSE,
  simulate = FALSE,
  bootstrap = FALSE,
  npaths = 5000,
  PI = TRUE,
  lambda = object$lambda,
  biasadj = NULL,
  ...
)

Arguments

object

An object of class "ets". Usually the result of a call to ets.

h

Number of periods for forecasting

level

Confidence level for prediction intervals.

fan

If TRUE, level is set to seq(51,99,by=3). This is suitable for fan plots.

simulate

If TRUE, prediction intervals are produced by simulation rather than using analytic formulae. Errors are assumed to be normally distributed.

bootstrap

If TRUE, then prediction intervals are produced by simulation using resampled errors (rather than normally distributed errors).

npaths

Number of sample paths used in computing simulated prediction intervals.

PI

If TRUE, prediction intervals are produced, otherwise only point forecasts are calculated. If PI is FALSE, then level, fan, simulate, bootstrap and npaths are all ignored.

lambda

Box-Cox transformation parameter. If lambda="auto", then a transformation is automatically selected using BoxCox.lambda. The transformation is ignored if NULL. Otherwise, data transformed before model is estimated.

biasadj

Use adjusted back-transformed mean for Box-Cox transformations. If transformed data is used to produce forecasts and fitted values, a regular back transformation will result in median forecasts. If biasadj is TRUE, an adjustment will be made to produce mean forecasts and fitted values.

...

Other arguments.

Value

An object of class "forecast".

The function summary is used to obtain and print a summary of the results, while the function plot produces a plot of the forecasts and prediction intervals.

The generic accessor functions fitted.values and residuals extract useful features of the value returned by forecast.ets.

An object of class "forecast" is a list containing at least the following elements:

model

A list containing information about the fitted model

method

The name of the forecasting method as a character string

mean

Point forecasts as a time series

lower

Lower limits for prediction intervals

upper

Upper limits for prediction intervals

level

The confidence values associated with the prediction intervals

x

The original time series (either object itself or the time series used to create the model stored as object).

residuals

Residuals from the fitted model. For models with additive errors, the residuals are x - fitted values. For models with multiplicative errors, the residuals are equal to x /(fitted values) - 1.

fitted

Fitted values (one-step forecasts)

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman

See Also

ets, ses, holt, hw.

Examples

fit <- ets(USAccDeaths)
plot(forecast(fit,h=48))

Forecasting using ARIMA or ARFIMA models

Description

Returns forecasts and other information for univariate ARIMA models.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'fracdiff'
forecast(
  object,
  h = 10,
  level = c(80, 95),
  fan = FALSE,
  lambda = object$lambda,
  biasadj = NULL,
  ...
)

## S3 method for class 'Arima'
forecast(
  object,
  h = ifelse(object$arma[5] > 1, 2 * object$arma[5], 10),
  level = c(80, 95),
  fan = FALSE,
  xreg = NULL,
  lambda = object$lambda,
  bootstrap = FALSE,
  npaths = 5000,
  biasadj = NULL,
  ...
)

## S3 method for class 'ar'
forecast(
  object,
  h = 10,
  level = c(80, 95),
  fan = FALSE,
  lambda = NULL,
  bootstrap = FALSE,
  npaths = 5000,
  biasadj = FALSE,
  ...
)

Arguments

object

An object of class "Arima", "ar" or "fracdiff". Usually the result of a call to arima, auto.arima, ar, arfima or fracdiff.

h

Number of periods for forecasting. If xreg is used, h is ignored and the number of forecast periods is set to the number of rows of xreg.

level

Confidence level for prediction intervals.

fan

If TRUE, level is set to seq(51,99,by=3). This is suitable for fan plots.

lambda

Box-Cox transformation parameter. If lambda="auto", then a transformation is automatically selected using BoxCox.lambda. The transformation is ignored if NULL. Otherwise, data transformed before model is estimated.

biasadj

Use adjusted back-transformed mean for Box-Cox transformations. If transformed data is used to produce forecasts and fitted values, a regular back transformation will result in median forecasts. If biasadj is TRUE, an adjustment will be made to produce mean forecasts and fitted values.

...

Other arguments.

xreg

Future values of an regression variables (for class Arima objects only). A numerical vector or matrix of external regressors; it should not be a data frame.

bootstrap

If TRUE, then prediction intervals computed using simulation with resampled errors.

npaths

Number of sample paths used in computing simulated prediction intervals when bootstrap=TRUE.

Details

For Arima or ar objects, the function calls predict.Arima or predict.ar and constructs an object of class "forecast" from the results. For fracdiff objects, the calculations are all done within forecast.fracdiff using the equations given by Peiris and Perera (1988).

Value

An object of class "forecast".

The function summary is used to obtain and print a summary of the results, while the function plot produces a plot of the forecasts and prediction intervals.

The generic accessor functions fitted.values and residuals extract useful features of the value returned by forecast.Arima.

An object of class "forecast" is a list containing at least the following elements:

model

A list containing information about the fitted model

method

The name of the forecasting method as a character string

mean

Point forecasts as a time series

lower

Lower limits for prediction intervals

upper

Upper limits for prediction intervals

level

The confidence values associated with the prediction intervals

x

The original time series (either object itself or the time series used to create the model stored as object).

residuals

Residuals from the fitted model. That is x minus fitted values.

fitted

Fitted values (one-step forecasts)

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman

References

Peiris, M. & Perera, B. (1988), On prediction with fractionally differenced ARIMA models, Journal of Time Series Analysis, 9(3), 215-220.

See Also

predict.Arima, predict.ar, auto.arima, Arima, arima, ar, arfima.

Examples

fit <- Arima(WWWusage,c(3,1,0))
plot(forecast(fit))

library(fracdiff)
x <- fracdiff.sim( 100, ma=-.4, d=.3)$series
fit <- arfima(x)
plot(forecast(fit,h=30))

Forecasting using Holt-Winters objects

Description

Returns forecasts and other information for univariate Holt-Winters time series models.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'HoltWinters'
forecast(
  object,
  h = ifelse(frequency(object$x) > 1, 2 * frequency(object$x), 10),
  level = c(80, 95),
  fan = FALSE,
  lambda = NULL,
  biasadj = NULL,
  ...
)

Arguments

object

An object of class "HoltWinters". Usually the result of a call to HoltWinters.

h

Number of periods for forecasting

level

Confidence level for prediction intervals.

fan

If TRUE, level is set to seq(51,99,by=3). This is suitable for fan plots.

lambda

Box-Cox transformation parameter. If lambda="auto", then a transformation is automatically selected using BoxCox.lambda. The transformation is ignored if NULL. Otherwise, data transformed before model is estimated.

biasadj

Use adjusted back-transformed mean for Box-Cox transformations. If transformed data is used to produce forecasts and fitted values, a regular back transformation will result in median forecasts. If biasadj is TRUE, an adjustment will be made to produce mean forecasts and fitted values.

...

Other arguments.

Details

This function calls predict.HoltWinters and constructs an object of class "forecast" from the results.

It is included for completeness, but the ets is recommended for use instead of HoltWinters.

Value

An object of class "forecast".

The function summary is used to obtain and print a summary of the results, while the function plot produces a plot of the forecasts and prediction intervals.

The generic accessor functions fitted.values and residuals extract useful features of the value returned by forecast.HoltWinters.

An object of class "forecast" is a list containing at least the following elements:

model

A list containing information about the fitted model

method

The name of the forecasting method as a character string

mean

Point forecasts as a time series

lower

Lower limits for prediction intervals

upper

Upper limits for prediction intervals

level

The confidence values associated with the prediction intervals

x

The original time series (either object itself or the time series used to create the model stored as object).

residuals

Residuals from the fitted model.

fitted

Fitted values (one-step forecasts)

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman

See Also

predict.HoltWinters, HoltWinters.

Examples

fit <- HoltWinters(WWWusage,gamma=FALSE)
plot(forecast(fit))

Forecast a linear model with possible time series components

Description

forecast.lm is used to predict linear models, especially those involving trend and seasonality components.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'lm'
forecast(
  object,
  newdata,
  h = 10,
  level = c(80, 95),
  fan = FALSE,
  lambda = object$lambda,
  biasadj = NULL,
  ts = TRUE,
  ...
)

Arguments

object

Object of class "lm", usually the result of a call to lm or tslm.

newdata

An optional data frame in which to look for variables with which to predict. If omitted, it is assumed that the only variables are trend and season, and h forecasts are produced.

h

Number of periods for forecasting. Ignored if newdata present.

level

Confidence level for prediction intervals.

fan

If TRUE, level is set to seq(51,99,by=3). This is suitable for fan plots.

lambda

Box-Cox transformation parameter. If lambda="auto", then a transformation is automatically selected using BoxCox.lambda. The transformation is ignored if NULL. Otherwise, data transformed before model is estimated.

biasadj

Use adjusted back-transformed mean for Box-Cox transformations. If transformed data is used to produce forecasts and fitted values, a regular back transformation will result in median forecasts. If biasadj is TRUE, an adjustment will be made to produce mean forecasts and fitted values.

ts

If TRUE, the forecasts will be treated as time series provided the original data is a time series; the newdata will be interpreted as related to the subsequent time periods. If FALSE, any time series attributes of the original data will be ignored.

...

Other arguments passed to predict.lm().

Details

forecast.lm is largely a wrapper for predict.lm() except that it allows variables "trend" and "season" which are created on the fly from the time series characteristics of the data. Also, the output is reformatted into a forecast object.

Value

An object of class "forecast".

The function summary is used to obtain and print a summary of the results, while the function plot produces a plot of the forecasts and prediction intervals.

The generic accessor functions fitted.values and residuals extract useful features of the value returned by forecast.lm.

An object of class "forecast" is a list containing at least the following elements:

model

A list containing information about the fitted model

method

The name of the forecasting method as a character string

mean

Point forecasts as a time series

lower

Lower limits for prediction intervals

upper

Upper limits for prediction intervals

level

The confidence values associated with the prediction intervals

x

The historical data for the response variable.

residuals

Residuals from the fitted model. That is x minus fitted values.

fitted

Fitted values

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman

See Also

tslm, lm.

Examples

y <- ts(rnorm(120,0,3) + 1:120 + 20*sin(2*pi*(1:120)/12), frequency=12)
fit <- tslm(y ~ trend + season)
plot(forecast(fit, h=20))

Forecast a multiple linear model with possible time series components

Description

forecast.mlm is used to predict multiple linear models, especially those involving trend and seasonality components.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'mlm'
forecast(
  object,
  newdata,
  h = 10,
  level = c(80, 95),
  fan = FALSE,
  lambda = object$lambda,
  biasadj = NULL,
  ts = TRUE,
  ...
)

Arguments

object

Object of class "mlm", usually the result of a call to lm or tslm.

newdata

An optional data frame in which to look for variables with which to predict. If omitted, it is assumed that the only variables are trend and season, and h forecasts are produced.

h

Number of periods for forecasting. Ignored if newdata present.

level

Confidence level for prediction intervals.

fan

If TRUE, level is set to seq(51,99,by=3). This is suitable for fan plots.

lambda

Box-Cox transformation parameter. If lambda="auto", then a transformation is automatically selected using BoxCox.lambda. The transformation is ignored if NULL. Otherwise, data transformed before model is estimated.

biasadj

Use adjusted back-transformed mean for Box-Cox transformations. If transformed data is used to produce forecasts and fitted values, a regular back transformation will result in median forecasts. If biasadj is TRUE, an adjustment will be made to produce mean forecasts and fitted values.

ts

If TRUE, the forecasts will be treated as time series provided the original data is a time series; the newdata will be interpreted as related to the subsequent time periods. If FALSE, any time series attributes of the original data will be ignored.

...

Other arguments passed to forecast.lm().

Details

forecast.mlm is largely a wrapper for forecast.lm() except that it allows forecasts to be generated on multiple series. Also, the output is reformatted into a mforecast object.

Value

An object of class "mforecast".

The function summary is used to obtain and print a summary of the results, while the function plot produces a plot of the forecasts and prediction intervals.

The generic accessor functions fitted.values and residuals extract useful features of the value returned by forecast.lm.

An object of class "mforecast" is a list containing at least the following elements:

model

A list containing information about the fitted model

method

The name of the forecasting method as a character string

mean

Point forecasts as a multivariate time series

lower

Lower limits for prediction intervals of each series

upper

Upper limits for prediction intervals of each series

level

The confidence values associated with the prediction intervals

x

The historical data for the response variable.

residuals

Residuals from the fitted model. That is x minus fitted values.

fitted

Fitted values

Author(s)

Mitchell O'Hara-Wild

See Also

tslm, forecast.lm, lm.

Examples

lungDeaths <- cbind(mdeaths, fdeaths)
fit <- tslm(lungDeaths ~ trend + season)
fcast <- forecast(fit, h=10)

carPower <- as.matrix(mtcars[,c("qsec","hp")])
carmpg <- mtcars[,"mpg"]
fit <- lm(carPower ~ carmpg)
fcast <- forecast(fit, newdata=data.frame(carmpg=30))

Forecasting using user-defined model

Description

Returns forecasts and other information for user-defined models.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'modelAR'
forecast(
  object,
  h = ifelse(object$m > 1, 2 * object$m, 10),
  PI = FALSE,
  level = c(80, 95),
  fan = FALSE,
  xreg = NULL,
  lambda = object$lambda,
  bootstrap = FALSE,
  npaths = 1000,
  innov = NULL,
  ...
)

Arguments

object

An object of class "modelAR" resulting from a call to modelAR.

h

Number of periods for forecasting. If xreg is used, h is ignored and the number of forecast periods is set to the number of rows of xreg.

PI

If TRUE, prediction intervals are produced, otherwise only point forecasts are calculated. If PI is FALSE, then level, fan, bootstrap and npaths are all ignored.

level

Confidence level for prediction intervals.

fan

If TRUE, level is set to seq(51,99,by=3). This is suitable for fan plots.

xreg

Future values of external regressor variables.

lambda

Box-Cox transformation parameter. If lambda="auto", then a transformation is automatically selected using BoxCox.lambda. The transformation is ignored if NULL. Otherwise, data transformed before model is estimated.

bootstrap

If TRUE, then prediction intervals computed using simulations with resampled residuals rather than normally distributed errors. Ignored if innov is not NULL.

npaths

Number of sample paths used in computing simulated prediction intervals.

innov

Values to use as innovations for prediction intervals. Must be a matrix with h rows and npaths columns (vectors are coerced into a matrix). If present, bootstrap is ignored.

...

Additional arguments passed to simulate.nnetar

Details

Prediction intervals are calculated through simulations and can be slow. Note that if the model is too complex and overfits the data, the residuals can be arbitrarily small; if used for prediction interval calculations, they could lead to misleadingly small values.

Value

An object of class "forecast".

The function summary is used to obtain and print a summary of the results, while the function plot produces a plot of the forecasts and prediction intervals.

The generic accessor functions fitted.values and residuals extract useful features of the value returned by forecast.nnetar.

An object of class "forecast" is a list containing at least the following elements:

model

A list containing information about the fitted model

method

The name of the forecasting method as a character string

mean

Point forecasts as a time series

lower

Lower limits for prediction intervals

upper

Upper limits for prediction intervals

level

The confidence values associated with the prediction intervals

x

The original time series (either object itself or the time series used to create the model stored as object).

xreg

The external regressors used in fitting (if given).

residuals

Residuals from the fitted model. That is x minus fitted values.

fitted

Fitted values (one-step forecasts)

...

Other arguments

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman and Gabriel Caceres

See Also

nnetar.


Forecasting time series

Description

mforecast is a class of objects for forecasting from multivariate time series or multivariate time series models. The function invokes particular methods which depend on the class of the first argument.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'mts'
forecast(
  object,
  h = ifelse(frequency(object) > 1, 2 * frequency(object), 10),
  level = c(80, 95),
  fan = FALSE,
  robust = FALSE,
  lambda = NULL,
  biasadj = FALSE,
  find.frequency = FALSE,
  allow.multiplicative.trend = FALSE,
  ...
)

Arguments

object

a multivariate time series or multivariate time series model for which forecasts are required

h

Number of periods for forecasting

level

Confidence level for prediction intervals.

fan

If TRUE, level is set to seq(51,99,by=3). This is suitable for fan plots.

robust

If TRUE, the function is robust to missing values and outliers in object. This argument is only valid when object is of class mts.

lambda

Box-Cox transformation parameter. If lambda="auto", then a transformation is automatically selected using BoxCox.lambda. The transformation is ignored if NULL. Otherwise, data transformed before model is estimated.

biasadj

Use adjusted back-transformed mean for Box-Cox transformations. If transformed data is used to produce forecasts and fitted values, a regular back transformation will result in median forecasts. If biasadj is TRUE, an adjustment will be made to produce mean forecasts and fitted values.

find.frequency

If TRUE, the function determines the appropriate period, if the data is of unknown period.

allow.multiplicative.trend

If TRUE, then ETS models with multiplicative trends are allowed. Otherwise, only additive or no trend ETS models are permitted.

...

Additional arguments affecting the forecasts produced.

Details

For example, the function forecast.mlm makes multivariate forecasts based on the results produced by tslm.

Value

An object of class "mforecast".

The function summary is used to obtain and print a summary of the results, while the function plot produces a plot of the multivariate forecasts and prediction intervals.

The generic accessors functions fitted.values and residuals extract various useful features of the value returned by forecast$model.

An object of class "mforecast" is a list usually containing at least the following elements:

model

A list containing information about the fitted model

method

The name of the forecasting method as a character string

mean

Point forecasts as a time series

lower

Lower limits for prediction intervals

upper

Upper limits for prediction intervals

level

The confidence values associated with the prediction intervals

x

The original time series (either object itself or the time series used to create the model stored as object).

residuals

Residuals from the fitted model. For models with additive errors, the residuals will be x minus the fitted values.

fitted

Fitted values (one-step forecasts)

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman & Mitchell O'Hara-Wild

See Also

Other functions which return objects of class "mforecast" are forecast.mlm, forecast.varest.


Forecasting using neural network models

Description

Returns forecasts and other information for univariate neural network models.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'nnetar'
forecast(
  object,
  h = ifelse(object$m > 1, 2 * object$m, 10),
  PI = FALSE,
  level = c(80, 95),
  fan = FALSE,
  xreg = NULL,
  lambda = object$lambda,
  bootstrap = FALSE,
  npaths = 1000,
  innov = NULL,
  ...
)

Arguments

object

An object of class "nnetar" resulting from a call to nnetar.

h

Number of periods for forecasting. If xreg is used, h is ignored and the number of forecast periods is set to the number of rows of xreg.

PI

If TRUE, prediction intervals are produced, otherwise only point forecasts are calculated. If PI is FALSE, then level, fan, bootstrap and npaths are all ignored.

level

Confidence level for prediction intervals.

fan

If TRUE, level is set to seq(51,99,by=3). This is suitable for fan plots.

xreg

Future values of external regressor variables.

lambda

Box-Cox transformation parameter. If lambda="auto", then a transformation is automatically selected using BoxCox.lambda. The transformation is ignored if NULL. Otherwise, data transformed before model is estimated.

bootstrap

If TRUE, then prediction intervals computed using simulations with resampled residuals rather than normally distributed errors. Ignored if innov is not NULL.

npaths

Number of sample paths used in computing simulated prediction intervals.

innov

Values to use as innovations for prediction intervals. Must be a matrix with h rows and npaths columns (vectors are coerced into a matrix). If present, bootstrap is ignored.

...

Additional arguments passed to simulate.nnetar

Details

Prediction intervals are calculated through simulations and can be slow. Note that if the network is too complex and overfits the data, the residuals can be arbitrarily small; if used for prediction interval calculations, they could lead to misleadingly small values. It is possible to use out-of-sample residuals to ameliorate this, see examples.

Value

An object of class "forecast".

The function summary is used to obtain and print a summary of the results, while the function plot produces a plot of the forecasts and prediction intervals.

The generic accessor functions fitted.values and residuals extract useful features of the value returned by forecast.nnetar.

An object of class "forecast" is a list containing at least the following elements:

model

A list containing information about the fitted model

method

The name of the forecasting method as a character string

mean

Point forecasts as a time series

lower

Lower limits for prediction intervals

upper

Upper limits for prediction intervals

level

The confidence values associated with the prediction intervals

x

The original time series (either object itself or the time series used to create the model stored as object).

xreg

The external regressors used in fitting (if given).

residuals

Residuals from the fitted model. That is x minus fitted values.

fitted

Fitted values (one-step forecasts)

...

Other arguments

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman and Gabriel Caceres

See Also

nnetar.

Examples

## Fit & forecast model
fit <- nnetar(USAccDeaths, size=2)
fcast <- forecast(fit, h=20)
plot(fcast)

## Not run: 
## Include prediction intervals in forecast
fcast2 <- forecast(fit, h=20, PI=TRUE, npaths=100)
plot(fcast2)

## Set up out-of-sample innovations using cross-validation
fit_cv <- CVar(USAccDeaths,  size=2)
res_sd <- sd(fit_cv$residuals, na.rm=TRUE)
myinnovs <- rnorm(20*100, mean=0, sd=res_sd)
## Forecast using new innovations
fcast3 <- forecast(fit, h=20, PI=TRUE, npaths=100, innov=myinnovs)
plot(fcast3)

## End(Not run)

Forecasting using stl objects

Description

Forecasts of STL objects are obtained by applying a non-seasonal forecasting method to the seasonally adjusted data and re-seasonalizing using the last year of the seasonal component.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'stl'
forecast(
  object,
  method = c("ets", "arima", "naive", "rwdrift"),
  etsmodel = "ZZN",
  forecastfunction = NULL,
  h = frequency(object$time.series) * 2,
  level = c(80, 95),
  fan = FALSE,
  lambda = NULL,
  biasadj = NULL,
  xreg = NULL,
  newxreg = NULL,
  allow.multiplicative.trend = FALSE,
  ...
)

stlm(
  y,
  s.window = 7 + 4 * seq(6),
  robust = FALSE,
  method = c("ets", "arima"),
  modelfunction = NULL,
  model = NULL,
  etsmodel = "ZZN",
  lambda = NULL,
  biasadj = FALSE,
  xreg = NULL,
  allow.multiplicative.trend = FALSE,
  x = y,
  ...
)

## S3 method for class 'stlm'
forecast(
  object,
  h = 2 * object$m,
  level = c(80, 95),
  fan = FALSE,
  lambda = object$lambda,
  biasadj = NULL,
  newxreg = NULL,
  allow.multiplicative.trend = FALSE,
  ...
)

stlf(
  y,
  h = frequency(x) * 2,
  s.window = 7 + 4 * seq(6),
  t.window = NULL,
  robust = FALSE,
  lambda = NULL,
  biasadj = FALSE,
  x = y,
  ...
)

Arguments

object

An object of class stl or stlm. Usually the result of a call to stl or stlm.

method

Method to use for forecasting the seasonally adjusted series.

etsmodel

The ets model specification passed to ets. By default it allows any non-seasonal model. If method!="ets", this argument is ignored.

forecastfunction

An alternative way of specifying the function for forecasting the seasonally adjusted series. If forecastfunction is not NULL, then method is ignored. Otherwise method is used to specify the forecasting method to be used.

h

Number of periods for forecasting.

level

Confidence level for prediction intervals.

fan

If TRUE, level is set to seq(51,99,by=3). This is suitable for fan plots.

lambda

Box-Cox transformation parameter. If lambda="auto", then a transformation is automatically selected using BoxCox.lambda. The transformation is ignored if NULL. Otherwise, data transformed before model is estimated.

biasadj

Use adjusted back-transformed mean for Box-Cox transformations. If transformed data is used to produce forecasts and fitted values, a regular back transformation will result in median forecasts. If biasadj is TRUE, an adjustment will be made to produce mean forecasts and fitted values.

xreg

Historical regressors to be used in auto.arima() when method=="arima".

newxreg

Future regressors to be used in forecast.Arima().

allow.multiplicative.trend

If TRUE, then ETS models with multiplicative trends are allowed. Otherwise, only additive or no trend ETS models are permitted.

...

Other arguments passed to forecast.stl, modelfunction or forecastfunction.

y

A univariate numeric time series of class ts

s.window

Either the character string “periodic” or the span (in lags) of the loess window for seasonal extraction.

robust

If TRUE, robust fitting will used in the loess procedure within stl.

modelfunction

An alternative way of specifying the function for modelling the seasonally adjusted series. If modelfunction is not NULL, then method is ignored. Otherwise method is used to specify the time series model to be used.

model

Output from a previous call to stlm. If a stlm model is passed, this same model is fitted to y without re-estimating any parameters.

x

Deprecated. Included for backwards compatibility.

t.window

A number to control the smoothness of the trend. See stl for details.

Details

stlm takes a time series y, applies an STL decomposition, and models the seasonally adjusted data using the model passed as modelfunction or specified using method. It returns an object that includes the original STL decomposition and a time series model fitted to the seasonally adjusted data. This object can be passed to the forecast.stlm for forecasting.

forecast.stlm forecasts the seasonally adjusted data, then re-seasonalizes the results by adding back the last year of the estimated seasonal component.

stlf combines stlm and forecast.stlm. It takes a ts argument, applies an STL decomposition, models the seasonally adjusted data, reseasonalizes, and returns the forecasts. However, it allows more general forecasting methods to be specified via forecastfunction.

forecast.stl is similar to stlf except that it takes the STL decomposition as the first argument, instead of the time series.

Note that the prediction intervals ignore the uncertainty associated with the seasonal component. They are computed using the prediction intervals from the seasonally adjusted series, which are then reseasonalized using the last year of the seasonal component. The uncertainty in the seasonal component is ignored.

The time series model for the seasonally adjusted data can be specified in stlm using either method or modelfunction. The method argument provides a shorthand way of specifying modelfunction for a few special cases. More generally, modelfunction can be any function with first argument a ts object, that returns an object that can be passed to forecast. For example, forecastfunction=ar uses the ar function for modelling the seasonally adjusted series.

The forecasting method for the seasonally adjusted data can be specified in stlf and forecast.stl using either method or forecastfunction. The method argument provides a shorthand way of specifying forecastfunction for a few special cases. More generally, forecastfunction can be any function with first argument a ts object, and other h and level, which returns an object of class forecast. For example, forecastfunction=thetaf uses the thetaf function for forecasting the seasonally adjusted series.

Value

stlm returns an object of class stlm. The other functions return objects of class forecast.

There are many methods for working with forecast objects including summary to obtain and print a summary of the results, while plot produces a plot of the forecasts and prediction intervals. The generic accessor functions fitted.values and residuals extract useful features.

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman

See Also

stl, forecast.ets, forecast.Arima.

Examples

tsmod <- stlm(USAccDeaths, modelfunction = ar)
plot(forecast(tsmod, h = 36))

decomp <- stl(USAccDeaths, s.window = "periodic")
plot(forecast(decomp))

plot(stlf(AirPassengers, lambda = 0))

Forecasting using Structural Time Series models

Description

Returns forecasts and other information for univariate structural time series models.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'StructTS'
forecast(
  object,
  h = ifelse(object$coef["epsilon"] > 1e-10, 2 * object$xtsp[3], 10),
  level = c(80, 95),
  fan = FALSE,
  lambda = NULL,
  biasadj = NULL,
  ...
)

Arguments

object

An object of class "StructTS". Usually the result of a call to StructTS.

h

Number of periods for forecasting

level

Confidence level for prediction intervals.

fan

If TRUE, level is set to seq(51,99,by=3). This is suitable for fan plots.

lambda

Box-Cox transformation parameter. If lambda="auto", then a transformation is automatically selected using BoxCox.lambda. The transformation is ignored if NULL. Otherwise, data transformed before model is estimated.

biasadj

Use adjusted back-transformed mean for Box-Cox transformations. If transformed data is used to produce forecasts and fitted values, a regular back transformation will result in median forecasts. If biasadj is TRUE, an adjustment will be made to produce mean forecasts and fitted values.

...

Other arguments.

Details

This function calls predict.StructTS and constructs an object of class "forecast" from the results.

Value

An object of class "forecast".

The function summary is used to obtain and print a summary of the results, while the function plot produces a plot of the forecasts and prediction intervals.

The generic accessor functions fitted.values and residuals extract useful features of the value returned by forecast.StructTS.

An object of class "forecast" is a list containing at least the following elements:

model

A list containing information about the fitted model

method

The name of the forecasting method as a character string

mean

Point forecasts as a time series

lower

Lower limits for prediction intervals

upper

Upper limits for prediction intervals

level

The confidence values associated with the prediction intervals

x

The original time series (either object itself or the time series used to create the model stored as object).

residuals

Residuals from the fitted model. That is x minus fitted values.

fitted

Fitted values (one-step forecasts)

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman

See Also

StructTS.

Examples

fit <- StructTS(WWWusage,"level")
plot(forecast(fit))

Forecasting time series

Description

forecast is a generic function for forecasting from time series or time series models. The function invokes particular methods which depend on the class of the first argument.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'ts'
forecast(
  object,
  h = ifelse(frequency(object) > 1, 2 * frequency(object), 10),
  level = c(80, 95),
  fan = FALSE,
  robust = FALSE,
  lambda = NULL,
  biasadj = FALSE,
  find.frequency = FALSE,
  allow.multiplicative.trend = FALSE,
  model = NULL,
  ...
)

## Default S3 method:
forecast(object, ...)

## S3 method for class 'forecast'
print(x, ...)

Arguments

object

a time series or time series model for which forecasts are required

h

Number of periods for forecasting

level

Confidence level for prediction intervals.

fan

If TRUE, level is set to seq(51,99,by=3). This is suitable for fan plots.

robust

If TRUE, the function is robust to missing values and outliers in object. This argument is only valid when object is of class ts.

lambda

Box-Cox transformation parameter. If lambda="auto", then a transformation is automatically selected using BoxCox.lambda. The transformation is ignored if NULL. Otherwise, data transformed before model is estimated.

biasadj

Use adjusted back-transformed mean for Box-Cox transformations. If transformed data is used to produce forecasts and fitted values, a regular back transformation will result in median forecasts. If biasadj is TRUE, an adjustment will be made to produce mean forecasts and fitted values.

find.frequency

If TRUE, the function determines the appropriate period, if the data is of unknown period.

allow.multiplicative.trend

If TRUE, then ETS models with multiplicative trends are allowed. Otherwise, only additive or no trend ETS models are permitted.

model

An object describing a time series model; e.g., one of of class ets, Arima, bats, tbats, or nnetar.

...

Additional arguments affecting the forecasts produced. If model=NULL, forecast.ts passes these to ets or stlf depending on the frequency of the time series. If model is not NULL, the arguments are passed to the relevant modelling function.

x

a numeric vector or time series of class ts.

Details

For example, the function forecast.Arima makes forecasts based on the results produced by arima.

If model=NULL,the function forecast.ts makes forecasts using ets models (if the data are non-seasonal or the seasonal period is 12 or less) or stlf (if the seasonal period is 13 or more).

If model is not NULL, forecast.ts will apply the model to the object time series, and then generate forecasts accordingly.

Value

An object of class "forecast".

The function summary is used to obtain and print a summary of the results, while the function plot produces a plot of the forecasts and prediction intervals.

The generic accessors functions fitted.values and residuals extract various useful features of the value returned by forecast$model.

An object of class "forecast" is a list usually containing at least the following elements:

model

A list containing information about the fitted model

method

The name of the forecasting method as a character string

mean

Point forecasts as a time series

lower

Lower limits for prediction intervals

upper

Upper limits for prediction intervals

level

The confidence values associated with the prediction intervals

x

The original time series (either object itself or the time series used to create the model stored as object).

residuals

Residuals from the fitted model. For models with additive errors, the residuals will be x minus the fitted values.

fitted

Fitted values (one-step forecasts)

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman

See Also

Other functions which return objects of class "forecast" are forecast.ets, forecast.Arima, forecast.HoltWinters, forecast.StructTS, meanf, rwf, splinef, thetaf, croston, ses, holt, hw.

Examples

WWWusage %>% forecast %>% plot
fit <- ets(window(WWWusage, end=60))
fc <- forecast(WWWusage, model=fit)

Fourier terms for modelling seasonality

Description

fourier returns a matrix containing terms from a Fourier series, up to order K, suitable for use in Arima, auto.arima, or tslm.

Usage

fourier(x, K, h = NULL)

fourierf(x, K, h)

Arguments

x

Seasonal time series: a ts or a msts object

K

Maximum order(s) of Fourier terms

h

Number of periods ahead to forecast (optional)

Details

fourierf is deprecated, instead use the h argument in fourier.

The period of the Fourier terms is determined from the time series characteristics of x. When h is missing, the length of x also determines the number of rows for the matrix returned by fourier. Otherwise, the value of h determines the number of rows for the matrix returned by fourier, typically used for forecasting. The values within x are not used.

Typical use would omit h when generating Fourier terms for training a model and include h when generating Fourier terms for forecasting.

When x is a ts object, the value of K should be an integer and specifies the number of sine and cosine terms to return. Thus, the matrix returned has 2*K columns.

When x is a msts object, then K should be a vector of integers specifying the number of sine and cosine terms for each of the seasonal periods. Then the matrix returned will have 2*sum(K) columns.

Value

Numerical matrix.

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman

See Also

seasonaldummy

Examples

library(ggplot2)

# Using Fourier series for a "ts" object
# K is chosen to minimize the AICc
deaths.model  <- auto.arima(USAccDeaths, xreg=fourier(USAccDeaths,K=5), seasonal=FALSE)
deaths.fcast <- forecast(deaths.model, xreg=fourier(USAccDeaths, K=5, h=36))
autoplot(deaths.fcast) + xlab("Year")

# Using Fourier series for a "msts" object
taylor.lm <- tslm(taylor ~ fourier(taylor, K = c(3, 3)))
taylor.fcast <- forecast(taylor.lm,
    data.frame(fourier(taylor, K = c(3, 3), h = 270)))
autoplot(taylor.fcast)

Australian monthly gas production

Description

Australian monthly gas production: 1956–1995.

Usage

gas

Format

Time series data

Source

Australian Bureau of Statistics.

Examples

plot(gas)
seasonplot(gas)
tsdisplay(gas)

Get response variable from time series model.

Description

getResponse is a generic function for extracting the historical data from a time series model (including Arima, ets, ar, fracdiff), a linear model of class lm, or a forecast object. The function invokes particular methods which depend on the class of the first argument.

Usage

getResponse(object, ...)

## Default S3 method:
getResponse(object, ...)

## S3 method for class 'lm'
getResponse(object, ...)

## S3 method for class 'Arima'
getResponse(object, ...)

## S3 method for class 'fracdiff'
getResponse(object, ...)

## S3 method for class 'ar'
getResponse(object, ...)

## S3 method for class 'tbats'
getResponse(object, ...)

## S3 method for class 'bats'
getResponse(object, ...)

## S3 method for class 'mforecast'
getResponse(object, ...)

## S3 method for class 'baggedModel'
getResponse(object, ...)

Arguments

object

a time series model or forecast object.

...

Additional arguments that are ignored.

Value

A numerical vector or a time series object of class ts.

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman


Histogram with optional normal and kernel density functions

Description

Plots a histogram and density estimates using ggplot.

Usage

gghistogram(
  x,
  add.normal = FALSE,
  add.kde = FALSE,
  add.rug = TRUE,
  bins,
  boundary = 0
)

Arguments

x

a numerical vector.

add.normal

Add a normal density function for comparison

add.kde

Add a kernel density estimate for comparison

add.rug

Add a rug plot on the horizontal axis

bins

The number of bins to use for the histogram. Selected by default using the Friedman-Diaconis rule given by nclass.FD

boundary

A boundary between two bins.

Value

None.

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman

See Also

hist, geom_histogram

Examples

gghistogram(lynx, add.kde=TRUE)

Time series lag ggplots

Description

Plots a lag plot using ggplot.

Usage

gglagplot(
  x,
  lags = ifelse(frequency(x) > 9, 16, 9),
  set.lags = 1:lags,
  diag = TRUE,
  diag.col = "gray",
  do.lines = TRUE,
  colour = TRUE,
  continuous = frequency(x) > 12,
  labels = FALSE,
  seasonal = TRUE,
  ...
)

gglagchull(
  x,
  lags = ifelse(frequency(x) > 1, min(12, frequency(x)), 4),
  set.lags = 1:lags,
  diag = TRUE,
  diag.col = "gray",
  ...
)

Arguments

x

a time series object (type ts).

lags

number of lag plots desired, see arg set.lags.

set.lags

vector of positive integers specifying which lags to use.

diag

logical indicating if the x=y diagonal should be drawn.

diag.col

color to be used for the diagonal if(diag).

do.lines

if TRUE, lines will be drawn, otherwise points will be drawn.

colour

logical indicating if lines should be coloured.

continuous

Should the colour scheme for years be continuous or discrete?

labels

logical indicating if labels should be used.

seasonal

Should the line colour be based on seasonal characteristics (TRUE), or sequential (FALSE).

...

Not used (for consistency with lag.plot)

Details

“gglagplot” will plot time series against lagged versions of themselves. Helps visualising 'auto-dependence' even when auto-correlations vanish.

“gglagchull” will layer convex hulls of the lags, layered on a single plot. This helps visualise the change in 'auto-dependence' as lags increase.

Value

None.

Author(s)

Mitchell O'Hara-Wild

See Also

lag.plot

Examples

gglagplot(woolyrnq)
gglagplot(woolyrnq,seasonal=FALSE)

lungDeaths <- cbind(mdeaths, fdeaths)
gglagplot(lungDeaths, lags=2)
gglagchull(lungDeaths, lags=6)

gglagchull(woolyrnq)

Create a seasonal subseries ggplot

Description

Plots a subseries plot using ggplot. Each season is plotted as a separate mini time series. The blue lines represent the mean of the observations within each season.

Usage

ggmonthplot(x, labels = NULL, times = time(x), phase = cycle(x), ...)

ggsubseriesplot(x, labels = NULL, times = time(x), phase = cycle(x), ...)

Arguments

x

a time series object (type ts).

labels

A vector of labels to use for each 'season'

times

A vector of times for each observation

phase

A vector of seasonal components

...

Not used (for consistency with monthplot)

Details

The ggmonthplot function is simply a wrapper for ggsubseriesplot as a convenience for users familiar with monthplot.

Value

Returns an object of class ggplot.

Author(s)

Mitchell O'Hara-Wild

See Also

monthplot

Examples

ggsubseriesplot(AirPassengers)
ggsubseriesplot(woolyrnq)

Seasonal plot

Description

Plots a seasonal plot as described in Hyndman and Athanasopoulos (2014, chapter 2). This is like a time plot except that the data are plotted against the seasons in separate years.

Usage

ggseasonplot(
  x,
  season.labels = NULL,
  year.labels = FALSE,
  year.labels.left = FALSE,
  type = NULL,
  col = NULL,
  continuous = FALSE,
  polar = FALSE,
  labelgap = 0.04,
  ...
)

seasonplot(
  x,
  s,
  season.labels = NULL,
  year.labels = FALSE,
  year.labels.left = FALSE,
  type = "o",
  main,
  xlab = NULL,
  ylab = "",
  col = 1,
  labelgap = 0.1,
  ...
)

Arguments

x

a numeric vector or time series of class ts.

season.labels

Labels for each season in the "year"

year.labels

Logical flag indicating whether labels for each year of data should be plotted on the right.

year.labels.left

Logical flag indicating whether labels for each year of data should be plotted on the left.

type

plot type (as for plot). Not yet supported for ggseasonplot.

col

Colour

continuous

Should the colour scheme for years be continuous or discrete?

polar

Plot the graph on seasonal coordinates

labelgap

Distance between year labels and plotted lines

...

additional arguments to plot.

s

seasonal frequency of x

main

Main title.

xlab

X-axis label.

ylab

Y-axis label.

Value

None.

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman & Mitchell O'Hara-Wild

References

Hyndman and Athanasopoulos (2018) Forecasting: principles and practice, 2nd edition, OTexts: Melbourne, Australia. https://otexts.com/fpp2/

See Also

monthplot

Examples

ggseasonplot(AirPassengers, col=rainbow(12), year.labels=TRUE)
ggseasonplot(AirPassengers, year.labels=TRUE, continuous=TRUE)

seasonplot(AirPassengers, col=rainbow(12), year.labels=TRUE)

Time series display

Description

Plots a time series along with its acf and either its pacf, lagged scatterplot or spectrum.

Usage

ggtsdisplay(
  x,
  plot.type = c("partial", "histogram", "scatter", "spectrum"),
  points = TRUE,
  smooth = FALSE,
  lag.max,
  na.action = na.contiguous,
  theme = NULL,
  ...
)

tsdisplay(
  x,
  plot.type = c("partial", "histogram", "scatter", "spectrum"),
  points = TRUE,
  ci.type = c("white", "ma"),
  lag.max,
  na.action = na.contiguous,
  main = NULL,
  xlab = "",
  ylab = "",
  pch = 1,
  cex = 0.5,
  ...
)

Arguments

x

a numeric vector or time series of class ts.

plot.type

type of plot to include in lower right corner.

points

logical flag indicating whether to show the individual points or not in the time plot.

smooth

logical flag indicating whether to show a smooth loess curve superimposed on the time plot.

lag.max

the maximum lag to plot for the acf and pacf. A suitable value is selected by default if the argument is missing.

na.action

function to handle missing values in acf, pacf and spectrum calculations. The default is na.contiguous. Useful alternatives are na.pass and na.interp.

theme

Adds a ggplot element to each plot, typically a theme.

...

additional arguments to acf.

ci.type

type of confidence limits for ACF that is passed to acf. Should the confidence limits assume a white noise input or for lag kk an MA(k1k-1) input?

main

Main title.

xlab

X-axis label.

ylab

Y-axis label.

pch

Plotting character.

cex

Character size.

Details

ggtsdisplay will produce the equivalent plot using ggplot graphics.

Value

None.

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman

References

Hyndman and Athanasopoulos (2018) Forecasting: principles and practice, 2nd edition, OTexts: Melbourne, Australia. https://otexts.com/fpp2/

See Also

plot.ts, Acf, spec.ar

Examples

library(ggplot2)
ggtsdisplay(USAccDeaths, plot.type="scatter", theme=theme_bw())

tsdisplay(diff(WWWusage))
ggtsdisplay(USAccDeaths, plot.type="scatter")

Daily morning gold prices

Description

Daily morning gold prices in US dollars. 1 January 1985 – 31 March 1989.

Usage

gold

Format

Time series data

Examples

tsdisplay(gold)

Is an object a particular model type?

Description

Returns true if the model object is of a particular type

Usage

is.acf(x)

is.Arima(x)

is.baggedModel(x)

is.bats(x)

is.ets(x)

is.modelAR(x)

is.stlm(x)

is.nnetar(x)

is.nnetarmodels(x)

Arguments

x

object to be tested


Is an object constant?

Description

Returns true if the object's numerical values do not vary.

Usage

is.constant(x)

Arguments

x

object to be tested


Is an object a particular forecast type?

Description

Returns true if the forecast object is of a particular type

Usage

is.forecast(x)

is.mforecast(x)

is.splineforecast(x)

Arguments

x

object to be tested


Moving-average smoothing

Description

ma computes a simple moving average smoother of a given time series.

Usage

ma(x, order, centre = TRUE)

Arguments

x

Univariate time series

order

Order of moving average smoother

centre

If TRUE, then the moving average is centred for even orders.

Details

The moving average smoother averages the nearest order periods of each observation. As neighbouring observations of a time series are likely to be similar in value, averaging eliminates some of the randomness in the data, leaving a smooth trend-cycle component.

T^t=1mj=kkyt+j\hat{T}_{t} = \frac{1}{m} \sum_{j=-k}^k y_{t+j}

where k=m12k=\frac{m-1}{2}.

When an even order is specified, the observations averaged will include one more observation from the future than the past (k is rounded up). If centre is TRUE, the value from two moving averages (where k is rounded up and down respectively) are averaged, centering the moving average.

Value

Numerical time series object containing the simple moving average smoothed values.

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman

See Also

decompose

Examples

plot(wineind)
sm <- ma(wineind,order=12)
lines(sm,col="red")

Mean Forecast

Description

Returns forecasts and prediction intervals for an iid model applied to y.

Usage

meanf(
  y,
  h = 10,
  level = c(80, 95),
  fan = FALSE,
  lambda = NULL,
  biasadj = FALSE,
  bootstrap = FALSE,
  npaths = 5000,
  x = y
)

Arguments

y

a numeric vector or time series of class ts

h

Number of periods for forecasting

level

Confidence levels for prediction intervals.

fan

If TRUE, level is set to seq(51,99,by=3). This is suitable for fan plots.

lambda

Box-Cox transformation parameter. If lambda="auto", then a transformation is automatically selected using BoxCox.lambda. The transformation is ignored if NULL. Otherwise, data transformed before model is estimated.

biasadj

Use adjusted back-transformed mean for Box-Cox transformations. If transformed data is used to produce forecasts and fitted values, a regular back transformation will result in median forecasts. If biasadj is TRUE, an adjustment will be made to produce mean forecasts and fitted values.

bootstrap

If TRUE, use a bootstrap method to compute prediction intervals. Otherwise, assume a normal distribution.

npaths

Number of bootstrapped sample paths to use if bootstrap==TRUE.

x

Deprecated. Included for backwards compatibility.

Details

The iid model is

Yt=μ+ZtY_t=\mu + Z_t

where ZtZ_t is a normal iid error. Forecasts are given by

Yn(h)=μY_n(h)=\mu

where μ\mu is estimated by the sample mean.

Value

An object of class "forecast".

The function summary is used to obtain and print a summary of the results, while the function plot produces a plot of the forecasts and prediction intervals.

The generic accessor functions fitted.values and residuals extract useful features of the value returned by meanf.

An object of class "forecast" is a list containing at least the following elements:

model

A list containing information about the fitted model

method

The name of the forecasting method as a character string

mean

Point forecasts as a time series

lower

Lower limits for prediction intervals

upper

Upper limits for prediction intervals

level

The confidence values associated with the prediction intervals

x

The original time series (either object itself or the time series used to create the model stored as object).

residuals

Residuals from the fitted model. That is x minus fitted values.

fitted

Fitted values (one-step forecasts)

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman

See Also

rwf

Examples

nile.fcast <- meanf(Nile, h=10)
plot(nile.fcast)

Time Series Forecasts with a user-defined model

Description

Experimental function to forecast univariate time series with a user-defined model

Usage

modelAR(
  y,
  p,
  P = 1,
  FUN,
  predict.FUN,
  xreg = NULL,
  lambda = NULL,
  model = NULL,
  subset = NULL,
  scale.inputs = FALSE,
  x = y,
  ...
)

Arguments

y

A numeric vector or time series of class ts.

p

Embedding dimension for non-seasonal time series. Number of non-seasonal lags used as inputs. For non-seasonal time series, the default is the optimal number of lags (according to the AIC) for a linear AR(p) model. For seasonal time series, the same method is used but applied to seasonally adjusted data (from an stl decomposition).

P

Number of seasonal lags used as inputs.

FUN

Function used for model fitting. Must accept argument x and y for the predictors and response, respectively (formula object not currently supported).

predict.FUN

Prediction function used to apply FUN to new data. Must accept an object of class FUN as its first argument, and a data frame or matrix of new data for its second argument. Additionally, it should return fitted values when new data is omitted.

xreg

Optionally, a vector or matrix of external regressors, which must have the same number of rows as y. Must be numeric.

lambda

Box-Cox transformation parameter. If lambda="auto", then a transformation is automatically selected using BoxCox.lambda. The transformation is ignored if NULL. Otherwise, data transformed before model is estimated.

model

Output from a previous call to nnetar. If model is passed, this same model is fitted to y without re-estimating any parameters.

subset

Optional vector specifying a subset of observations to be used in the fit. Can be an integer index vector or a logical vector the same length as y. All observations are used by default.

scale.inputs

If TRUE, inputs are scaled by subtracting the column means and dividing by their respective standard deviations. If lambda is not NULL, scaling is applied after Box-Cox transformation.

x

Deprecated. Included for backwards compatibility.

...

Other arguments passed to FUN for modelAR.

Details

This is an experimental function and only recommended for advanced users. The selected model is fitted with lagged values of y as inputs. The inputs are for lags 1 to p, and lags m to mP where m=frequency(y). If xreg is provided, its columns are also used as inputs. If there are missing values in y or xreg, the corresponding rows (and any others which depend on them as lags) are omitted from the fit. The model is trained for one-step forecasting. Multi-step forecasts are computed recursively.

Value

Returns an object of class "modelAR".

The function summary is used to obtain and print a summary of the results.

The generic accessor functions fitted.values and residuals extract useful features of the value returned by nnetar.

model

A list containing information about the fitted model

method

The name of the forecasting method as a character string

x

The original time series.

xreg

The external regressors used in fitting (if given).

residuals

Residuals from the fitted model. That is x minus fitted values.

fitted

Fitted values (one-step forecasts)

...

Other arguments

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman and Gabriel Caceres


Compute model degrees of freedom

Description

Compute model degrees of freedom

Usage

modeldf(object, ...)

Arguments

object

A time series model

...

Other arguments currently ignored


Number of days in each season

Description

Returns number of days in each month or quarter of the observed time period.

Usage

monthdays(x)

Arguments

x

time series

Details

Useful for month length adjustments

Value

Time series

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman

See Also

bizdays

Examples

par(mfrow=c(2,1))
plot(ldeaths,xlab="Year",ylab="pounds",
    main="Monthly deaths from lung disease (UK)")
ldeaths.adj <- ldeaths/monthdays(ldeaths)*365.25/12
plot(ldeaths.adj,xlab="Year",ylab="pounds",
    main="Adjusted monthly deaths from lung disease (UK)")

Multiple seasonal decomposition

Description

Decompose a time series into seasonal, trend and remainder components. Seasonal components are estimated iteratively using STL. Multiple seasonal periods are allowed. The trend component is computed for the last iteration of STL. Non-seasonal time series are decomposed into trend and remainder only. In this case, supsmu is used to estimate the trend. Optionally, the time series may be Box-Cox transformed before decomposition. Unlike stl, mstl is completely automated.

Usage

mstl(x, lambda = NULL, iterate = 2, s.window = 7 + 4 * seq(6), ...)

Arguments

x

Univariate time series of class msts or ts.

lambda

Box-Cox transformation parameter. If lambda="auto", then a transformation is automatically selected using BoxCox.lambda. The transformation is ignored if NULL. Otherwise, data transformed before model is estimated.

iterate

Number of iterations to use to refine the seasonal component.

s.window

Seasonal windows to be used in the decompositions. If scalar, the same value is used for all seasonal components. Otherwise, it should be a vector of the same length as the number of seasonal components (or longer).

...

Other arguments are passed to stl.

See Also

stl, supsmu

Examples

library(ggplot2)
mstl(taylor) %>% autoplot()
mstl(AirPassengers, lambda = "auto") %>% autoplot()

Multi-Seasonal Time Series

Description

msts is an S3 class for multi seasonal time series objects, intended to be used for models that support multiple seasonal periods. The msts class inherits from the ts class and has an additional "msts" attribute which contains the vector of seasonal periods. All methods that work on a ts class, should also work on a msts class.

Usage

msts(data, seasonal.periods, ts.frequency = floor(max(seasonal.periods)), ...)

Arguments

data

A numeric vector, ts object, matrix or data frame. It is intended that the time series data is univariate, otherwise treated the same as ts().

seasonal.periods

A vector of the seasonal periods of the msts.

ts.frequency

The seasonal period that should be used as frequency of the underlying ts object. The default value is max(seasonal.periods).

...

Arguments to be passed to the underlying call to ts(). For example start=c(1987,5).

Value

An object of class c("msts", "ts"). If there is only one seasonal period (i.e., length(seasonal.periods)==1), then the object is of class "ts".

Author(s)

Slava Razbash and Rob J Hyndman

Examples

x <- msts(taylor, seasonal.periods=c(2*24,2*24*7,2*24*365), start=2000+22/52)
y <- msts(USAccDeaths, seasonal.periods=12, start=1949)

Interpolate missing values in a time series

Description

By default, uses linear interpolation for non-seasonal series. For seasonal series, a robust STL decomposition is first computed. Then a linear interpolation is applied to the seasonally adjusted data, and the seasonal component is added back.

Usage

na.interp(
  x,
  lambda = NULL,
  linear = (frequency(x) <= 1 | sum(!is.na(x)) <= 2 * frequency(x))
)

Arguments

x

time series

lambda

Box-Cox transformation parameter. If lambda="auto", then a transformation is automatically selected using BoxCox.lambda. The transformation is ignored if NULL. Otherwise, data transformed before model is estimated.

linear

Should a linear interpolation be used.

Details

A more general and flexible approach is available using na.approx in the zoo package.

Value

Time series

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman

See Also

tsoutliers

Examples

data(gold)
plot(na.interp(gold))

Number of differences required for a stationary series

Description

Functions to estimate the number of differences required to make a given time series stationary. ndiffs estimates the number of first differences necessary.

Usage

ndiffs(
  x,
  alpha = 0.05,
  test = c("kpss", "adf", "pp"),
  type = c("level", "trend"),
  max.d = 2,
  ...
)

Arguments

x

A univariate time series

alpha

Level of the test, possible values range from 0.01 to 0.1.

test

Type of unit root test to use

type

Specification of the deterministic component in the regression

max.d

Maximum number of non-seasonal differences allowed

...

Additional arguments to be passed on to the unit root test

Details

ndiffs uses a unit root test to determine the number of differences required for time series x to be made stationary. If test="kpss", the KPSS test is used with the null hypothesis that x has a stationary root against a unit-root alternative. Then the test returns the least number of differences required to pass the test at the level alpha. If test="adf", the Augmented Dickey-Fuller test is used and if test="pp" the Phillips-Perron test is used. In both of these cases, the null hypothesis is that x has a unit root against a stationary root alternative. Then the test returns the least number of differences required to fail the test at the level alpha.

Value

An integer indicating the number of differences required for stationarity.

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman, Slava Razbash & Mitchell O'Hara-Wild

References

Dickey DA and Fuller WA (1979), "Distribution of the Estimators for Autoregressive Time Series with a Unit Root", Journal of the American Statistical Association 74:427-431.

Kwiatkowski D, Phillips PCB, Schmidt P and Shin Y (1992) "Testing the Null Hypothesis of Stationarity against the Alternative of a Unit Root", Journal of Econometrics 54:159-178.

Osborn, D.R. (1990) "A survey of seasonality in UK macroeconomic variables", International Journal of Forecasting, 6:327-336.

Phillips, P.C.B. and Perron, P. (1988) "Testing for a unit root in time series regression", Biometrika, 72(2), 335-346.

Said E and Dickey DA (1984), "Testing for Unit Roots in Autoregressive Moving Average Models of Unknown Order", Biometrika 71:599-607.

See Also

auto.arima and ndiffs

Examples

ndiffs(WWWusage)
ndiffs(diff(log(AirPassengers), 12))

Neural Network Time Series Forecasts

Description

Feed-forward neural networks with a single hidden layer and lagged inputs for forecasting univariate time series.

Usage

nnetar(
  y,
  p,
  P = 1,
  size,
  repeats = 20,
  xreg = NULL,
  lambda = NULL,
  model = NULL,
  subset = NULL,
  scale.inputs = TRUE,
  x = y,
  ...
)

Arguments

y

A numeric vector or time series of class ts.

p

Embedding dimension for non-seasonal time series. Number of non-seasonal lags used as inputs. For non-seasonal time series, the default is the optimal number of lags (according to the AIC) for a linear AR(p) model. For seasonal time series, the same method is used but applied to seasonally adjusted data (from an stl decomposition). If set to zero to indicate that no non-seasonal lags should be included, then P must be at least 1 and a model with only seasonal lags will be fit.

P

Number of seasonal lags used as inputs.

size

Number of nodes in the hidden layer. Default is half of the number of input nodes (including external regressors, if given) plus 1.

repeats

Number of networks to fit with different random starting weights. These are then averaged when producing forecasts.

xreg

Optionally, a vector or matrix of external regressors, which must have the same number of rows as y. Must be numeric.

lambda

Box-Cox transformation parameter. If lambda="auto", then a transformation is automatically selected using BoxCox.lambda. The transformation is ignored if NULL. Otherwise, data transformed before model is estimated.

model

Output from a previous call to nnetar. If model is passed, this same model is fitted to y without re-estimating any parameters.

subset

Optional vector specifying a subset of observations to be used in the fit. Can be an integer index vector or a logical vector the same length as y. All observations are used by default.

scale.inputs

If TRUE, inputs are scaled by subtracting the column means and dividing by their respective standard deviations. If lambda is not NULL, scaling is applied after Box-Cox transformation.

x

Deprecated. Included for backwards compatibility.

...

Other arguments passed to nnet for nnetar.

Details

A feed-forward neural network is fitted with lagged values of y as inputs and a single hidden layer with size nodes. The inputs are for lags 1 to p, and lags m to mP where m=frequency(y). If xreg is provided, its columns are also used as inputs. If there are missing values in y or xreg, the corresponding rows (and any others which depend on them as lags) are omitted from the fit. A total of repeats networks are fitted, each with random starting weights. These are then averaged when computing forecasts. The network is trained for one-step forecasting. Multi-step forecasts are computed recursively.

For non-seasonal data, the fitted model is denoted as an NNAR(p,k) model, where k is the number of hidden nodes. This is analogous to an AR(p) model but with nonlinear functions. For seasonal data, the fitted model is called an NNAR(p,P,k)[m] model, which is analogous to an ARIMA(p,0,0)(P,0,0)[m] model but with nonlinear functions.

Value

Returns an object of class "nnetar".

The function summary is used to obtain and print a summary of the results.

The generic accessor functions fitted.values and residuals extract useful features of the value returned by nnetar.

model

A list containing information about the fitted model

method

The name of the forecasting method as a character string

x

The original time series.

xreg

The external regressors used in fitting (if given).

residuals

Residuals from the fitted model. That is x minus fitted values.

fitted

Fitted values (one-step forecasts)

...

Other arguments

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman and Gabriel Caceres

Examples

fit <- nnetar(lynx)
fcast <- forecast(fit)
plot(fcast)

## Arguments can be passed to nnet()
fit <- nnetar(lynx, decay=0.5, maxit=150)
plot(forecast(fit))
lines(lynx)

## Fit model to first 100 years of lynx data
fit <- nnetar(window(lynx,end=1920), decay=0.5, maxit=150)
plot(forecast(fit,h=14))
lines(lynx)

## Apply fitted model to later data, including all optional arguments
fit2 <- nnetar(window(lynx,start=1921), model=fit)

Number of differences required for a seasonally stationary series

Description

Functions to estimate the number of differences required to make a given time series stationary. nsdiffs estimates the number of seasonal differences necessary.

Usage

nsdiffs(
  x,
  alpha = 0.05,
  m = frequency(x),
  test = c("seas", "ocsb", "hegy", "ch"),
  max.D = 1,
  ...
)

Arguments

x

A univariate time series

alpha

Level of the test, possible values range from 0.01 to 0.1.

m

Deprecated. Length of seasonal period

test

Type of unit root test to use

max.D

Maximum number of seasonal differences allowed

...

Additional arguments to be passed on to the unit root test

Details

nsdiffs uses seasonal unit root tests to determine the number of seasonal differences required for time series x to be made stationary (possibly with some lag-one differencing as well).

Several different tests are available:

  • If test="seas" (default), a measure of seasonal strength is used, where differencing is selected if the seasonal strength (Wang, Smith & Hyndman, 2006) exceeds 0.64 (based on minimizing MASE when forecasting using auto.arima on M3 and M4 data).

  • If test="ch", the Canova-Hansen (1995) test is used (with null hypothesis of deterministic seasonality)

  • If test="hegy", the Hylleberg, Engle, Granger & Yoo (1990) test is used.

  • If test="ocsb", the Osborn-Chui-Smith-Birchenhall (1988) test is used (with null hypothesis that a seasonal unit root exists).

Value

An integer indicating the number of differences required for stationarity.

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman, Slava Razbash and Mitchell O'Hara-Wild

References

Wang, X, Smith, KA, Hyndman, RJ (2006) "Characteristic-based clustering for time series data", Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 13(3), 335-364.

Osborn DR, Chui APL, Smith J, and Birchenhall CR (1988) "Seasonality and the order of integration for consumption", Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 50(4):361-377.

Canova F and Hansen BE (1995) "Are Seasonal Patterns Constant over Time? A Test for Seasonal Stability", Journal of Business and Economic Statistics 13(3):237-252.

Hylleberg S, Engle R, Granger C and Yoo B (1990) "Seasonal integration and cointegration.", Journal of Econometrics 44(1), pp. 215-238.

See Also

auto.arima, ndiffs, ocsb.test, hegy.test, and ch.test

Examples

nsdiffs(AirPassengers)

Osborn, Chui, Smith, and Birchenhall Test for Seasonal Unit Roots

Description

An implementation of the Osborn, Chui, Smith, and Birchenhall (OCSB) test.

Usage

ocsb.test(x, lag.method = c("fixed", "AIC", "BIC", "AICc"), maxlag = 0)

Arguments

x

a univariate seasonal time series.

lag.method

a character specifying the lag order selection method.

maxlag

the maximum lag order to be considered by lag.method.

Details

The regression equation may include lags of the dependent variable. When lag.method = "fixed", the lag order is fixed to maxlag; otherwise, maxlag is the maximum number of lags considered in a lag selection procedure that minimises the lag.method criterion, which can be AIC or BIC or corrected AIC, AICc, obtained as AIC + (2k(k+1))/(n-k-1), where k is the number of parameters and n is the number of available observations in the model.

Critical values for the test are based on simulations, which has been smoothed over to produce critical values for all seasonal periods.

Value

ocsb.test returns a list of class "OCSBtest" with the following components: * statistics the value of the test statistics. * pvalues the p-values for each test statistics. * method a character string describing the type of test. * data.name a character string giving the name of the data. * fitted.model the fitted regression model.

References

Osborn DR, Chui APL, Smith J, and Birchenhall CR (1988) "Seasonality and the order of integration for consumption", Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 50(4):361-377.

See Also

nsdiffs

Examples

ocsb.test(AirPassengers)

Plot characteristic roots from ARIMA model

Description

Produces a plot of the inverse AR and MA roots of an ARIMA model. Inverse roots outside the unit circle are shown in red.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'Arima'
plot(
  x,
  type = c("both", "ar", "ma"),
  main,
  xlab = "Real",
  ylab = "Imaginary",
  ...
)

## S3 method for class 'ar'
plot(x, main, xlab = "Real", ylab = "Imaginary", ...)

## S3 method for class 'Arima'
autoplot(object, type = c("both", "ar", "ma"), ...)

## S3 method for class 'ar'
autoplot(object, ...)

Arguments

x

Object of class “Arima” or “ar”.

type

Determines if both AR and MA roots are plotted, of if just one set is plotted.

main

Main title. Default is "Inverse AR roots" or "Inverse MA roots".

xlab

X-axis label.

ylab

Y-axis label.

...

Other plotting parameters passed to par.

object

Object of class “Arima” or “ar”. Used for ggplot graphics (S3 method consistency).

Details

autoplot will produce an equivalent plot as a ggplot object.

Value

None. Function produces a plot

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman & Mitchell O'Hara-Wild

See Also

Arima, ar

Examples

library(ggplot2)

fit <- Arima(WWWusage, order = c(3, 1, 0))
plot(fit)
autoplot(fit)

fit <- Arima(woolyrnq, order = c(2, 0, 0), seasonal = c(2, 1, 1))
plot(fit)
autoplot(fit)

plot(ar.ols(gold[1:61]))
autoplot(ar.ols(gold[1:61]))

Plot components from BATS model

Description

Produces a plot of the level, slope and seasonal components from a BATS or TBATS model. The plotted components are Box-Cox transformed using the estimated transformation parameter.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'bats'
plot(x, main = "Decomposition by BATS model", ...)

## S3 method for class 'tbats'
autoplot(object, range.bars = FALSE, ...)

## S3 method for class 'bats'
autoplot(object, range.bars = FALSE, ...)

## S3 method for class 'tbats'
plot(x, main = "Decomposition by TBATS model", ...)

Arguments

x

Object of class “bats/tbats”.

main

Main title for plot.

...

Other plotting parameters passed to par.

object

Object of class “bats/tbats”.

range.bars

Logical indicating if each plot should have a bar at its right side representing relative size. If NULL, automatic selection takes place.

Value

None. Function produces a plot

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman

See Also

bats,tbats

Examples

## Not run: 
fit <- tbats(USAccDeaths)
plot(fit)
autoplot(fit, range.bars = TRUE)
## End(Not run)

Plot components from ETS model

Description

Produces a plot of the level, slope and seasonal components from an ETS model.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'ets'
plot(x, ...)

## S3 method for class 'ets'
autoplot(object, range.bars = NULL, ...)

Arguments

x

Object of class “ets”.

...

Other plotting parameters to affect the plot.

object

Object of class “ets”. Used for ggplot graphics (S3 method consistency).

range.bars

Logical indicating if each plot should have a bar at its right side representing relative size. If NULL, automatic selection takes place.

Details

autoplot will produce an equivalent plot as a ggplot object.

Value

None. Function produces a plot

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman & Mitchell O'Hara-Wild

See Also

ets

Examples

fit <- ets(USAccDeaths)
plot(fit)
plot(fit,plot.type="single",ylab="",col=1:3)

library(ggplot2)
autoplot(fit)

Forecast plot

Description

Plots historical data with forecasts and prediction intervals.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'forecast'
plot(
  x,
  include,
  PI = TRUE,
  showgap = TRUE,
  shaded = TRUE,
  shadebars = (length(x$mean) < 5),
  shadecols = NULL,
  col = 1,
  fcol = 4,
  pi.col = 1,
  pi.lty = 2,
  ylim = NULL,
  main = NULL,
  xlab = "",
  ylab = "",
  type = "l",
  flty = 1,
  flwd = 2,
  ...
)

## S3 method for class 'forecast'
autoplot(
  object,
  include,
  PI = TRUE,
  shadecols = c("#596DD5", "#D5DBFF"),
  fcol = "#0000AA",
  flwd = 0.5,
  ...
)

## S3 method for class 'splineforecast'
autoplot(object, PI = TRUE, ...)

## S3 method for class 'forecast'
autolayer(object, series = NULL, PI = TRUE, showgap = TRUE, ...)

## S3 method for class 'splineforecast'
plot(x, fitcol = 2, type = "o", pch = 19, ...)

Arguments

x

Forecast object produced by forecast.

include

number of values from time series to include in plot. Default is all values.

PI

Logical flag indicating whether to plot prediction intervals.

showgap

If showgap=FALSE, the gap between the historical observations and the forecasts is removed.

shaded

Logical flag indicating whether prediction intervals should be shaded (TRUE) or lines (FALSE)

shadebars

Logical flag indicating if prediction intervals should be plotted as shaded bars (if TRUE) or a shaded polygon (if FALSE). Ignored if shaded=FALSE. Bars are plotted by default if there are fewer than five forecast horizons.

shadecols

Colors for shaded prediction intervals. To get default colors used prior to v3.26, set shadecols="oldstyle".

col

Colour for the data line.

fcol

Colour for the forecast line.

pi.col

If shaded=FALSE and PI=TRUE, the prediction intervals are plotted in this colour.

pi.lty

If shaded=FALSE and PI=TRUE, the prediction intervals are plotted using this line type.

ylim

Limits on y-axis.

main

Main title.

xlab

X-axis label.

ylab

Y-axis label.

type

1-character string giving the type of plot desired. As for plot.default.

flty

Line type for the forecast line.

flwd

Line width for the forecast line.

...

Other plotting parameters to affect the plot.

object

Forecast object produced by forecast. Used for ggplot graphics (S3 method consistency).

series

Matches an unidentified forecast layer with a coloured object on the plot.

fitcol

Line colour for fitted values.

pch

Plotting character (if type=="p" or type=="o").

Details

autoplot will produce a ggplot object.

plot.splineforecast autoplot.splineforecast

Value

None.

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman & Mitchell O'Hara-Wild

References

Hyndman and Athanasopoulos (2018) Forecasting: principles and practice, 2nd edition, OTexts: Melbourne, Australia. https://otexts.com/fpp2/

See Also

plot.ts

Examples

library(ggplot2)

wine.fit <- hw(wineind,h=48)
plot(wine.fit)
autoplot(wine.fit)

fit <- tslm(wineind ~ fourier(wineind,4))
fcast <- forecast(fit, newdata=data.frame(fourier(wineind,4,20)))
autoplot(fcast)

fcast <- splinef(airmiles,h=5)
plot(fcast)
autoplot(fcast)

Residuals for various time series models

Description

Returns time series of residuals from a fitted model.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'forecast'
residuals(object, type = c("innovation", "response"), ...)

## S3 method for class 'ar'
residuals(object, type = c("innovation", "response"), ...)

## S3 method for class 'Arima'
residuals(object, type = c("innovation", "response", "regression"), h = 1, ...)

## S3 method for class 'bats'
residuals(object, type = c("innovation", "response"), h = 1, ...)

## S3 method for class 'tbats'
residuals(object, type = c("innovation", "response"), h = 1, ...)

## S3 method for class 'ets'
residuals(object, type = c("innovation", "response"), h = 1, ...)

## S3 method for class 'ARFIMA'
residuals(object, type = c("innovation", "response"), ...)

## S3 method for class 'nnetar'
residuals(object, type = c("innovation", "response"), h = 1, ...)

## S3 method for class 'stlm'
residuals(object, type = c("innovation", "response"), ...)

## S3 method for class 'tslm'
residuals(object, type = c("innovation", "response", "deviance"), ...)

Arguments

object

An object containing a time series model of class ar, Arima, bats, ets, arfima, nnetar or stlm. If object is of class forecast, then the function will return object$residuals if it exists, otherwise it returns the differences between the observations and their fitted values.

type

Type of residual.

...

Other arguments not used.

h

If type='response', then the fitted values are computed for h-step forecasts.

Details

Innovation residuals correspond to the white noise process that drives the evolution of the time series model. Response residuals are the difference between the observations and the fitted values (equivalent to h-step forecasts). For functions with no h argument, h=1. For homoscedastic models, the innovation residuals and the response residuals for h=1 are identical. Regression residuals are available for regression models with ARIMA errors, and are equal to the original data minus the effect of the regression variables. If there are no regression variables, the errors will be identical to the original series (possibly adjusted to have zero mean). arima.errors is a deprecated function which is identical to residuals.Arima(object, type="regression"). For nnetar objects, when type="innovations" and lambda is used, a matrix of time-series consisting of the residuals from each of the fitted neural networks is returned.

Value

A ts object.

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman

See Also

fitted.Arima, checkresiduals.

Examples

fit <- Arima(lynx,order=c(4,0,0), lambda=0.5)

plot(residuals(fit))
plot(residuals(fit, type='response'))

Naive and Random Walk Forecasts

Description

rwf() returns forecasts and prediction intervals for a random walk with drift model applied to y. This is equivalent to an ARIMA(0,1,0) model with an optional drift coefficient. naive() is simply a wrapper to rwf() for simplicity. snaive() returns forecasts and prediction intervals from an ARIMA(0,0,0)(0,1,0)m model where m is the seasonal period.

Usage

rwf(
  y,
  h = 10,
  drift = FALSE,
  level = c(80, 95),
  fan = FALSE,
  lambda = NULL,
  biasadj = FALSE,
  ...,
  x = y
)

naive(
  y,
  h = 10,
  level = c(80, 95),
  fan = FALSE,
  lambda = NULL,
  biasadj = FALSE,
  ...,
  x = y
)

snaive(
  y,
  h = 2 * frequency(x),
  level = c(80, 95),
  fan = FALSE,
  lambda = NULL,
  biasadj = FALSE,
  ...,
  x = y
)

Arguments

y

a numeric vector or time series of class ts

h

Number of periods for forecasting

drift

Logical flag. If TRUE, fits a random walk with drift model.

level

Confidence levels for prediction intervals.

fan

If TRUE, level is set to seq(51,99,by=3). This is suitable for fan plots.

lambda

Box-Cox transformation parameter. If lambda="auto", then a transformation is automatically selected using BoxCox.lambda. The transformation is ignored if NULL. Otherwise, data transformed before model is estimated.

biasadj

Use adjusted back-transformed mean for Box-Cox transformations. If transformed data is used to produce forecasts and fitted values, a regular back transformation will result in median forecasts. If biasadj is TRUE, an adjustment will be made to produce mean forecasts and fitted values.

...

Additional arguments affecting the forecasts produced. If model=NULL, forecast.ts passes these to ets or stlf depending on the frequency of the time series. If model is not NULL, the arguments are passed to the relevant modelling function.

x

Deprecated. Included for backwards compatibility.

Details

The random walk with drift model is

Yt=c+Yt1+ZtY_t=c + Y_{t-1} + Z_t

where ZtZ_t is a normal iid error. Forecasts are given by

Yn(h)=ch+YnY_n(h)=ch+Y_n

If there is no drift (as in naive), the drift parameter c=0. Forecast standard errors allow for uncertainty in estimating the drift parameter (unlike the corresponding forecasts obtained by fitting an ARIMA model directly).

The seasonal naive model is

Yt=Ytm+ZtY_t= Y_{t-m} + Z_t

where ZtZ_t is a normal iid error.

Value

An object of class "forecast".

The function summary is used to obtain and print a summary of the results, while the function plot produces a plot of the forecasts and prediction intervals.

The generic accessor functions fitted.values and residuals extract useful features of the value returned by naive or snaive.

An object of class "forecast" is a list containing at least the following elements:

model

A list containing information about the fitted model

method

The name of the forecasting method as a character string

mean

Point forecasts as a time series

lower

Lower limits for prediction intervals

upper

Upper limits for prediction intervals

level

The confidence values associated with the prediction intervals

x

The original time series (either object itself or the time series used to create the model stored as object).

residuals

Residuals from the fitted model. That is x minus fitted values.

fitted

Fitted values (one-step forecasts)

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman

See Also

Arima

Examples

gold.fcast <- rwf(gold[1:60], h=50)
plot(gold.fcast)


plot(naive(gold,h=50),include=200)


plot(snaive(wineind))

Seasonal adjustment

Description

Returns seasonally adjusted data constructed by removing the seasonal component.

Usage

seasadj(object, ...)

## S3 method for class 'stl'
seasadj(object, ...)

## S3 method for class 'mstl'
seasadj(object, ...)

## S3 method for class 'decomposed.ts'
seasadj(object, ...)

## S3 method for class 'tbats'
seasadj(object, ...)

## S3 method for class 'seas'
seasadj(object, ...)

Arguments

object

Object created by decompose, stl or tbats.

...

Other arguments not currently used.

Value

Univariate time series.

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman

See Also

stl, decompose, tbats.

Examples

plot(AirPassengers)
lines(seasadj(decompose(AirPassengers,"multiplicative")),col=4)

Extract components from a time series decomposition

Description

Returns a univariate time series equal to either a seasonal component, trend-cycle component or remainder component from a time series decomposition.

Usage

seasonal(object)

trendcycle(object)

remainder(object)

Arguments

object

Object created by decompose, stl or tbats.

Value

Univariate time series.

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman

See Also

stl, decompose, tbats, seasadj.

Examples

plot(USAccDeaths)
fit <- stl(USAccDeaths, s.window="periodic")
lines(trendcycle(fit),col="red")

library(ggplot2)
autoplot(cbind(
	    Data=USAccDeaths,
	    Seasonal=seasonal(fit),
  	  Trend=trendcycle(fit),
	    Remainder=remainder(fit)),
    facets=TRUE) +
  ylab("") + xlab("Year")

Seasonal dummy variables

Description

seasonaldummy returns a matrix of dummy variables suitable for use in Arima, auto.arima or tslm. The last season is omitted and used as the control.

Usage

seasonaldummy(x, h = NULL)

seasonaldummyf(x, h)

Arguments

x

Seasonal time series: a ts or a msts object

h

Number of periods ahead to forecast (optional)

Details

seasonaldummyf is deprecated, instead use the h argument in seasonaldummy.

The number of dummy variables is determined from the time series characteristics of x. When h is missing, the length of x also determines the number of rows for the matrix returned by seasonaldummy. the value of h determines the number of rows for the matrix returned by seasonaldummy, typically used for forecasting. The values within x are not used.

Value

Numerical matrix.

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman

See Also

fourier

Examples

plot(ldeaths)

# Using seasonal dummy variables
month <- seasonaldummy(ldeaths)
deaths.lm  <- tslm(ldeaths ~ month)
tsdisplay(residuals(deaths.lm))
ldeaths.fcast <- forecast(deaths.lm,
    data.frame(month=I(seasonaldummy(ldeaths,36))))
plot(ldeaths.fcast)

# A simpler approach to seasonal dummy variables
deaths.lm  <- tslm(ldeaths ~ season)
ldeaths.fcast <- forecast(deaths.lm, h=36)
plot(ldeaths.fcast)

Exponential smoothing forecasts

Description

Returns forecasts and other information for exponential smoothing forecasts applied to y.

Usage

ses(
  y,
  h = 10,
  level = c(80, 95),
  fan = FALSE,
  initial = c("optimal", "simple"),
  alpha = NULL,
  lambda = NULL,
  biasadj = FALSE,
  x = y,
  ...
)

holt(
  y,
  h = 10,
  damped = FALSE,
  level = c(80, 95),
  fan = FALSE,
  initial = c("optimal", "simple"),
  exponential = FALSE,
  alpha = NULL,
  beta = NULL,
  phi = NULL,
  lambda = NULL,
  biasadj = FALSE,
  x = y,
  ...
)

hw(
  y,
  h = 2 * frequency(x),
  seasonal = c("additive", "multiplicative"),
  damped = FALSE,
  level = c(80, 95),
  fan = FALSE,
  initial = c("optimal", "simple"),
  exponential = FALSE,
  alpha = NULL,
  beta = NULL,
  gamma = NULL,
  phi = NULL,
  lambda = NULL,
  biasadj = FALSE,
  x = y,
  ...
)

Arguments

y

a numeric vector or time series of class ts

h

Number of periods for forecasting.

level

Confidence level for prediction intervals.

fan

If TRUE, level is set to seq(51,99,by=3). This is suitable for fan plots.

initial

Method used for selecting initial state values. If optimal, the initial values are optimized along with the smoothing parameters using ets. If simple, the initial values are set to values obtained using simple calculations on the first few observations. See Hyndman & Athanasopoulos (2014) for details.

alpha

Value of smoothing parameter for the level. If NULL, it will be estimated.

lambda

Box-Cox transformation parameter. If lambda="auto", then a transformation is automatically selected using BoxCox.lambda. The transformation is ignored if NULL. Otherwise, data transformed before model is estimated.

biasadj

Use adjusted back-transformed mean for Box-Cox transformations. If transformed data is used to produce forecasts and fitted values, a regular back transformation will result in median forecasts. If biasadj is TRUE, an adjustment will be made to produce mean forecasts and fitted values.

x

Deprecated. Included for backwards compatibility.

...

Other arguments passed to forecast.ets.

damped

If TRUE, use a damped trend.

exponential

If TRUE, an exponential trend is fitted. Otherwise, the trend is (locally) linear.

beta

Value of smoothing parameter for the trend. If NULL, it will be estimated.

phi

Value of damping parameter if damped=TRUE. If NULL, it will be estimated.

seasonal

Type of seasonality in hw model. "additive" or "multiplicative"

gamma

Value of smoothing parameter for the seasonal component. If NULL, it will be estimated.

Details

ses, holt and hw are simply convenient wrapper functions for forecast(ets(...)).

Value

An object of class "forecast".

The function summary is used to obtain and print a summary of the results, while the function plot produces a plot of the forecasts and prediction intervals.

The generic accessor functions fitted.values and residuals extract useful features of the value returned by ets and associated functions.

An object of class "forecast" is a list containing at least the following elements:

model

A list containing information about the fitted model

method

The name of the forecasting method as a character string

mean

Point forecasts as a time series

lower

Lower limits for prediction intervals

upper

Upper limits for prediction intervals

level

The confidence values associated with the prediction intervals

x

The original time series (either object itself or the time series used to create the model stored as object).

residuals

Residuals from the fitted model.

fitted

Fitted values (one-step forecasts)

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman

References

Hyndman, R.J., Koehler, A.B., Ord, J.K., Snyder, R.D. (2008) Forecasting with exponential smoothing: the state space approach, Springer-Verlag: New York. http://www.exponentialsmoothing.net.

Hyndman and Athanasopoulos (2018) Forecasting: principles and practice, 2nd edition, OTexts: Melbourne, Australia. https://otexts.com/fpp2/

See Also

ets, HoltWinters, rwf, arima.

Examples

fcast <- holt(airmiles)
plot(fcast)
deaths.fcast <- hw(USAccDeaths,h=48)
plot(deaths.fcast)

Simulation from a time series model

Description

Returns a time series based on the model object object.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'ets'
simulate(
  object,
  nsim = length(object$x),
  seed = NULL,
  future = TRUE,
  bootstrap = FALSE,
  innov = NULL,
  ...
)

## S3 method for class 'Arima'
simulate(
  object,
  nsim = length(object$x),
  seed = NULL,
  xreg = NULL,
  future = TRUE,
  bootstrap = FALSE,
  innov = NULL,
  lambda = object$lambda,
  ...
)

## S3 method for class 'ar'
simulate(
  object,
  nsim = object$n.used,
  seed = NULL,
  future = TRUE,
  bootstrap = FALSE,
  innov = NULL,
  ...
)

## S3 method for class 'lagwalk'
simulate(
  object,
  nsim = length(object$x),
  seed = NULL,
  future = TRUE,
  bootstrap = FALSE,
  innov = NULL,
  lambda = object$lambda,
  ...
)

## S3 method for class 'fracdiff'
simulate(
  object,
  nsim = object$n,
  seed = NULL,
  future = TRUE,
  bootstrap = FALSE,
  innov = NULL,
  ...
)

## S3 method for class 'nnetar'
simulate(
  object,
  nsim = length(object$x),
  seed = NULL,
  xreg = NULL,
  future = TRUE,
  bootstrap = FALSE,
  innov = NULL,
  lambda = object$lambda,
  ...
)

## S3 method for class 'modelAR'
simulate(
  object,
  nsim = length(object$x),
  seed = NULL,
  xreg = NULL,
  future = TRUE,
  bootstrap = FALSE,
  innov = NULL,
  lambda = object$lambda,
  ...
)

## S3 method for class 'tbats'
simulate(
  object,
  nsim = length(object$y),
  seed = NULL,
  future = TRUE,
  bootstrap = FALSE,
  innov = NULL,
  ...
)

Arguments

object

An object of class "ets", "Arima", "ar" or "nnetar".

nsim

Number of periods for the simulated series. Ignored if either xreg or innov are not NULL. Otherwise the default is the length of series used to train model (or 100 if no data found).

seed

Either NULL or an integer that will be used in a call to set.seed before simulating the time series. The default, NULL, will not change the random generator state.

future

Produce sample paths that are future to and conditional on the data in object. Otherwise simulate unconditionally.

bootstrap

Do simulation using resampled errors rather than normally distributed errors or errors provided as innov.

innov

A vector of innovations to use as the error series. Ignored if bootstrap==TRUE. If not NULL, the value of nsim is set to length of innov.

...

Other arguments, not currently used.

xreg

New values of xreg to be used for forecasting. The value of nsim is set to the number of rows of xreg if it is not NULL.

lambda

Box-Cox transformation parameter. If lambda="auto", then a transformation is automatically selected using BoxCox.lambda. The transformation is ignored if NULL. Otherwise, data transformed before model is estimated.

Details

With simulate.Arima(), the object should be produced by Arima or auto.arima, rather than arima. By default, the error series is assumed normally distributed and generated using rnorm. If innov is present, it is used instead. If bootstrap=TRUE and innov=NULL, the residuals are resampled instead.

When future=TRUE, the sample paths are conditional on the data. When future=FALSE and the model is stationary, the sample paths do not depend on the data at all. When future=FALSE and the model is non-stationary, the location of the sample paths is arbitrary, so they all start at the value of the first observation.

Value

An object of class "ts".

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman

See Also

ets, Arima, auto.arima, ar, arfima, nnetar.

Examples

fit <- ets(USAccDeaths)
plot(USAccDeaths, xlim = c(1973, 1982))
lines(simulate(fit, 36), col = "red")

Forecast seasonal index

Description

Returns vector containing the seasonal index for h future periods. If the seasonal index is non-periodic, it uses the last values of the index.

Usage

sindexf(object, h)

Arguments

object

Output from decompose or stl.

h

Number of periods ahead to forecast

Value

Time series

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman

Examples

uk.stl <- stl(UKDriverDeaths,"periodic")
uk.sa <- seasadj(uk.stl)
uk.fcast <- holt(uk.sa,36)
seasf <- sindexf(uk.stl,36)
uk.fcast$mean <- uk.fcast$mean + seasf
uk.fcast$lower <- uk.fcast$lower + cbind(seasf,seasf)
uk.fcast$upper <- uk.fcast$upper + cbind(seasf,seasf)
uk.fcast$x <- UKDriverDeaths
plot(uk.fcast,main="Forecasts from Holt's method with seasonal adjustment")

Cubic Spline Forecast

Description

Returns local linear forecasts and prediction intervals using cubic smoothing splines.

Usage

splinef(
  y,
  h = 10,
  level = c(80, 95),
  fan = FALSE,
  lambda = NULL,
  biasadj = FALSE,
  method = c("gcv", "mle"),
  x = y
)

Arguments

y

a numeric vector or time series of class ts

h

Number of periods for forecasting

level

Confidence level for prediction intervals.

fan

If TRUE, level is set to seq(51,99,by=3). This is suitable for fan plots.

lambda

Box-Cox transformation parameter. If lambda="auto", then a transformation is automatically selected using BoxCox.lambda. The transformation is ignored if NULL. Otherwise, data transformed before model is estimated.

biasadj

Use adjusted back-transformed mean for Box-Cox transformations. If transformed data is used to produce forecasts and fitted values, a regular back transformation will result in median forecasts. If biasadj is TRUE, an adjustment will be made to produce mean forecasts and fitted values.

method

Method for selecting the smoothing parameter. If method="gcv", the generalized cross-validation method from smooth.spline is used. If method="mle", the maximum likelihood method from Hyndman et al (2002) is used.

x

Deprecated. Included for backwards compatibility.

Details

The cubic smoothing spline model is equivalent to an ARIMA(0,2,2) model but with a restricted parameter space. The advantage of the spline model over the full ARIMA model is that it provides a smooth historical trend as well as a linear forecast function. Hyndman, King, Pitrun, and Billah (2002) show that the forecast performance of the method is hardly affected by the restricted parameter space.

Value

An object of class "forecast".

The function summary is used to obtain and print a summary of the results, while the function plot produces a plot of the forecasts and prediction intervals.

The generic accessor functions fitted.values and residuals extract useful features of the value returned by splinef.

An object of class "forecast" containing the following elements:

model

A list containing information about the fitted model

method

The name of the forecasting method as a character string

mean

Point forecasts as a time series

lower

Lower limits for prediction intervals

upper

Upper limits for prediction intervals

level

The confidence values associated with the prediction intervals

x

The original time series (either object itself or the time series used to create the model stored as object).

onestepf

One-step forecasts from the fitted model.

fitted

Smooth estimates of the fitted trend using all data.

residuals

Residuals from the fitted model. That is x minus one-step forecasts.

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman

References

Hyndman, King, Pitrun and Billah (2005) Local linear forecasts using cubic smoothing splines. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics, 47(1), 87-99. https://robjhyndman.com/publications/splinefcast/.

See Also

smooth.spline, arima, holt.

Examples

fcast <- splinef(uspop,h=5)
plot(fcast)
summary(fcast)

Forecast plot

Description

Generates forecasts from forecast.ts and adds them to the plot. Forecasts can be modified via sending forecast specific arguments above.

Usage

StatForecast

GeomForecast

geom_forecast(
  mapping = NULL,
  data = NULL,
  stat = "forecast",
  position = "identity",
  na.rm = FALSE,
  show.legend = NA,
  inherit.aes = TRUE,
  PI = TRUE,
  showgap = TRUE,
  series = NULL,
  ...
)

Arguments

mapping

Set of aesthetic mappings created by aes(). If specified and inherit.aes = TRUE (the default), it is combined with the default mapping at the top level of the plot. You must supply mapping if there is no plot mapping.

data

The data to be displayed in this layer. There are three options:

If NULL, the default, the data is inherited from the plot data as specified in the call to ggplot.

A data.frame, or other object, will override the plot data. All objects will be fortified to produce a data frame. See fortify for which variables will be created.

A function will be called with a single argument, the plot data. The return value must be a data.frame, and will be used as the layer data.

stat

The stat object to use calculate the data.

position

Position adjustment, either as a string, or the result of a call to a position adjustment function.

na.rm

If FALSE (the default), removes missing values with a warning. If TRUE silently removes missing values.

show.legend

logical. Should this layer be included in the legends? NA, the default, includes if any aesthetics are mapped. FALSE never includes, and TRUE always includes.

inherit.aes

If FALSE, overrides the default aesthetics, rather than combining with them. This is most useful for helper functions that define both data and aesthetics and shouldn't inherit behaviour from the default plot specification, e.g. borders.

PI

If FALSE, confidence intervals will not be plotted, giving only the forecast line.

showgap

If showgap=FALSE, the gap between the historical observations and the forecasts is removed.

series

Matches an unidentified forecast layer with a coloured object on the plot.

...

Additional arguments for forecast.ts, other arguments are passed on to layer. These are often aesthetics, used to set an aesthetic to a fixed value, like color = "red" or alpha = .5. They may also be parameters to the paired geom/stat.

Format

An object of class StatForecast (inherits from Stat, ggproto, gg) of length 3.

An object of class GeomForecast (inherits from Geom, ggproto, gg) of length 7.

Details

Multivariate forecasting is supported by having each time series on a different group.

You can also pass geom_forecast a forecast object to add it to the plot.

The aesthetics required for the forecasting to work includes forecast observations on the y axis, and the time of the observations on the x axis. Refer to the examples below. To automatically set up aesthetics, use autoplot.

Value

A layer for a ggplot graph.

Author(s)

Mitchell O'Hara-Wild

See Also

forecast, ggproto

Examples

## Not run: 
library(ggplot2)
autoplot(USAccDeaths) + geom_forecast()

lungDeaths <- cbind(mdeaths, fdeaths)
autoplot(lungDeaths) + geom_forecast()

# Using fortify.ts
p <- ggplot(aes(x=x, y=y), data=USAccDeaths)
p <- p + geom_line()
p + geom_forecast()

# Without fortify.ts
data <- data.frame(USAccDeaths=as.numeric(USAccDeaths), time=as.numeric(time(USAccDeaths)))
p <- ggplot(aes(x=time, y=USAccDeaths), data=data)
p <- p + geom_line()
p + geom_forecast()

p + geom_forecast(h=60)
p <- ggplot(aes(x=time, y=USAccDeaths), data=data)
p + geom_forecast(level=c(70,98))
p + geom_forecast(level=c(70,98),colour="lightblue")

#Add forecasts to multivariate series with colour groups
lungDeaths <- cbind(mdeaths, fdeaths)
autoplot(lungDeaths) + geom_forecast(forecast(mdeaths), series="mdeaths")

## End(Not run)

Subsetting a time series

Description

Various types of subsetting of a time series. Allows subsetting by index values (unlike window). Also allows extraction of the values of a specific season or subset of seasons in each year. For example, to extract all values for the month of May from a time series.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'ts'
subset(
  x,
  subset = NULL,
  month = NULL,
  quarter = NULL,
  season = NULL,
  start = NULL,
  end = NULL,
  ...
)

## S3 method for class 'msts'
subset(x, subset = NULL, start = NULL, end = NULL, ...)

Arguments

x

a univariate time series to be subsetted

subset

optional logical expression indicating elements to keep; missing values are taken as false. subset must be the same length as x.

month

Numeric or character vector of months to retain. Partial matching on month names used.

quarter

Numeric or character vector of quarters to retain.

season

Numeric vector of seasons to retain.

start

Index of start of contiguous subset.

end

Index of end of contiguous subset.

...

Other arguments, unused.

Details

If character values for months are used, either upper or lower case may be used, and partial unambiguous names are acceptable. Possible character values for quarters are "Q1", "Q2", "Q3", and "Q4".

Value

If subset is used, a numeric vector is returned with no ts attributes. If start and/or end are used, a ts object is returned consisting of x[start:end], with the appropriate time series attributes retained. Otherwise, a ts object is returned with frequency equal to the length of month, quarter or season.

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman

See Also

subset, window

Examples

plot(subset(gas,month="November"))
subset(woolyrnq,quarter=3)
subset(USAccDeaths, start=49)

Half-hourly electricity demand

Description

Half-hourly electricity demand in England and Wales from Monday 5 June 2000 to Sunday 27 August 2000. Discussed in Taylor (2003), and kindly provided by James W Taylor. Units: Megawatts

Usage

taylor

Format

Time series data

Source

James W Taylor

References

Taylor, J.W. (2003) Short-term electricity demand forecasting using double seasonal exponential smoothing. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 54, 799-805.

Examples

plot(taylor)

TBATS model (Exponential smoothing state space model with Box-Cox transformation, ARMA errors, Trend and Seasonal components)

Description

Fits a TBATS model applied to y, as described in De Livera, Hyndman & Snyder (2011). Parallel processing is used by default to speed up the computations.

Usage

tbats(
  y,
  use.box.cox = NULL,
  use.trend = NULL,
  use.damped.trend = NULL,
  seasonal.periods = NULL,
  use.arma.errors = TRUE,
  use.parallel = length(y) > 1000,
  num.cores = 2,
  bc.lower = 0,
  bc.upper = 1,
  biasadj = FALSE,
  model = NULL,
  ...
)

Arguments

y

The time series to be forecast. Can be numeric, msts or ts. Only univariate time series are supported.

use.box.cox

TRUE/FALSE indicates whether to use the Box-Cox transformation or not. If NULL then both are tried and the best fit is selected by AIC.

use.trend

TRUE/FALSE indicates whether to include a trend or not. If NULL then both are tried and the best fit is selected by AIC.

use.damped.trend

TRUE/FALSE indicates whether to include a damping parameter in the trend or not. If NULL then both are tried and the best fit is selected by AIC.

seasonal.periods

If y is numeric then seasonal periods can be specified with this parameter.

use.arma.errors

TRUE/FALSE indicates whether to include ARMA errors or not. If TRUE the best fit is selected by AIC. If FALSE then the selection algorithm does not consider ARMA errors.

use.parallel

TRUE/FALSE indicates whether or not to use parallel processing.

num.cores

The number of parallel processes to be used if using parallel processing. If NULL then the number of logical cores is detected and all available cores are used.

bc.lower

The lower limit (inclusive) for the Box-Cox transformation.

bc.upper

The upper limit (inclusive) for the Box-Cox transformation.

biasadj

Use adjusted back-transformed mean for Box-Cox transformations. If TRUE, point forecasts and fitted values are mean forecast. Otherwise, these points can be considered the median of the forecast densities.

model

Output from a previous call to tbats. If model is passed, this same model is fitted to y without re-estimating any parameters.

...

Additional arguments to be passed to auto.arima when choose an ARMA(p, q) model for the errors. (Note that xreg will be ignored, as will any arguments concerning seasonality and differencing, but arguments controlling the values of p and q will be used.)

Value

An object with class c("tbats", "bats"). The generic accessor functions fitted.values and residuals extract useful features of the value returned by bats and associated functions. The fitted model is designated TBATS(omega, p,q, phi, <m1,k1>,...,<mJ,kJ>) where omega is the Box-Cox parameter and phi is the damping parameter; the error is modelled as an ARMA(p,q) process and m1,...,mJ list the seasonal periods used in the model and k1,...,kJ are the corresponding number of Fourier terms used for each seasonality.

Author(s)

Slava Razbash and Rob J Hyndman

References

De Livera, A.M., Hyndman, R.J., & Snyder, R. D. (2011), Forecasting time series with complex seasonal patterns using exponential smoothing, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 106(496), 1513-1527.

See Also

tbats.components.

Examples

## Not run: 
fit <- tbats(USAccDeaths)
plot(forecast(fit))

taylor.fit <- tbats(taylor)
plot(forecast(taylor.fit))
## End(Not run)

Extract components of a TBATS model

Description

Extract the level, slope and seasonal components of a TBATS model. The extracted components are Box-Cox transformed using the estimated transformation parameter.

Usage

tbats.components(x)

Arguments

x

A tbats object created by tbats.

Value

A multiple time series (mts) object. The first series is the observed time series. The second series is the trend component of the fitted model. Series three onwards are the seasonal components of the fitted model with one time series for each of the seasonal components. All components are transformed using estimated Box-Cox parameter.

Author(s)

Slava Razbash and Rob J Hyndman

References

De Livera, A.M., Hyndman, R.J., & Snyder, R. D. (2011), Forecasting time series with complex seasonal patterns using exponential smoothing, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 106(496), 1513-1527.

See Also

tbats.

Examples

## Not run: 
fit <- tbats(USAccDeaths, use.parallel=FALSE)
components <- tbats.components(fit)
plot(components)
## End(Not run)

Theta method forecast

Description

Returns forecasts and prediction intervals for a theta method forecast.

Usage

thetaf(
  y,
  h = ifelse(frequency(y) > 1, 2 * frequency(y), 10),
  level = c(80, 95),
  fan = FALSE,
  x = y
)

Arguments

y

a numeric vector or time series of class ts

h

Number of periods for forecasting

level

Confidence levels for prediction intervals.

fan

If TRUE, level is set to seq(51,99,by=3). This is suitable for fan plots.

x

Deprecated. Included for backwards compatibility.

Details

The theta method of Assimakopoulos and Nikolopoulos (2000) is equivalent to simple exponential smoothing with drift. This is demonstrated in Hyndman and Billah (2003).

The series is tested for seasonality using the test outlined in A&N. If deemed seasonal, the series is seasonally adjusted using a classical multiplicative decomposition before applying the theta method. The resulting forecasts are then reseasonalized.

Prediction intervals are computed using the underlying state space model.

More general theta methods are available in the forecTheta package.

Value

An object of class "forecast".

The function summary is used to obtain and print a summary of the results, while the function plot produces a plot of the forecasts and prediction intervals.

The generic accessor functions fitted.values and residuals extract useful features of the value returned by rwf.

An object of class "forecast" is a list containing at least the following elements:

model

A list containing information about the fitted model

method

The name of the forecasting method as a character string

mean

Point forecasts as a time series

lower

Lower limits for prediction intervals

upper

Upper limits for prediction intervals

level

The confidence values associated with the prediction intervals

x

The original time series (either object itself or the time series used to create the model stored as object).

residuals

Residuals from the fitted model. That is x minus fitted values.

fitted

Fitted values (one-step forecasts)

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman

References

Assimakopoulos, V. and Nikolopoulos, K. (2000). The theta model: a decomposition approach to forecasting. International Journal of Forecasting 16, 521-530.

Hyndman, R.J., and Billah, B. (2003) Unmasking the Theta method. International J. Forecasting, 19, 287-290.

See Also

arima, meanf, rwf, ses

Examples

nile.fcast <- thetaf(Nile)
plot(nile.fcast)

Identify and replace outliers and missing values in a time series

Description

Uses supsmu for non-seasonal series and a robust STL decomposition for seasonal series. To estimate missing values and outlier replacements, linear interpolation is used on the (possibly seasonally adjusted) series

Usage

tsclean(x, replace.missing = TRUE, iterate = 2, lambda = NULL)

Arguments

x

time series

replace.missing

If TRUE, it not only replaces outliers, but also interpolates missing values

iterate

the number of iterations required

lambda

Box-Cox transformation parameter. If lambda="auto", then a transformation is automatically selected using BoxCox.lambda. The transformation is ignored if NULL. Otherwise, data transformed before model is estimated.

Value

Time series

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman

References

Hyndman (2021) "Detecting time series outliers" https://robjhyndman.com/hyndsight/tsoutliers/.

See Also

na.interp, tsoutliers, supsmu

Examples

cleangold <- tsclean(gold)

Time series cross-validation

Description

tsCV computes the forecast errors obtained by applying forecastfunction to subsets of the time series y using a rolling forecast origin.

Usage

tsCV(y, forecastfunction, h = 1, window = NULL, xreg = NULL, initial = 0, ...)

Arguments

y

Univariate time series

forecastfunction

Function to return an object of class forecast. Its first argument must be a univariate time series, and it must have an argument h for the forecast horizon. If exogenous predictors are used, then it must also have xreg and newxreg arguments corresponding to the training and test periods.

h

Forecast horizon

window

Length of the rolling window, if NULL, a rolling window will not be used.

xreg

Exogeneous predictor variables passed to the forecast function if required.

initial

Initial period of the time series where no cross-validation is performed.

...

Other arguments are passed to forecastfunction.

Details

Let y contain the time series y1,,yTy_1,\dots,y_T. Then forecastfunction is applied successively to the time series y1,,yty_1,\dots,y_t, for t=1,,Tht=1,\dots,T-h, making predictions y^t+ht\hat{y}_{t+h|t}. The errors are given by et+h=yt+hy^t+hte_{t+h} = y_{t+h}-\hat{y}_{t+h|t}. If h=1, these are returned as a vector, e1,,eTe_1,\dots,e_T. For h>1, they are returned as a matrix with the hth column containing errors for forecast horizon h. The first few errors may be missing as it may not be possible to apply forecastfunction to very short time series.

Value

Numerical time series object containing the forecast errors as a vector (if h=1) and a matrix otherwise. The time index corresponds to the last period of the training data. The columns correspond to the forecast horizons.

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman

See Also

CV, CVar, residuals.Arima, https://robjhyndman.com/hyndsight/tscv/.

Examples

#Fit an AR(2) model to each rolling origin subset
far2 <- function(x, h){forecast(Arima(x, order=c(2,0,0)), h=h)}
e <- tsCV(lynx, far2, h=1)

#Fit the same model with a rolling window of length 30
e <- tsCV(lynx, far2, h=1, window=30)

#Example with exogenous predictors
far2_xreg <- function(x, h, xreg, newxreg) {
  forecast(Arima(x, order=c(2,0,0), xreg=xreg), xreg=newxreg)
}

y <- ts(rnorm(50))
xreg <- matrix(rnorm(100),ncol=2)
e <- tsCV(y, far2_xreg, h=3, xreg=xreg)

Fit a linear model with time series components

Description

tslm is used to fit linear models to time series including trend and seasonality components.

Usage

tslm(formula, data, subset, lambda = NULL, biasadj = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

formula

an object of class "formula" (or one that can be coerced to that class): a symbolic description of the model to be fitted.

data

an optional data frame, list or environment (or object coercible by as.data.frame to a data frame) containing the variables in the model. If not found in data, the variables are taken from environment(formula), typically the environment from which lm is called.

subset

an optional subset containing rows of data to keep. For best results, pass a logical vector of rows to keep. Also supports subset() functions.

lambda

Box-Cox transformation parameter. If lambda="auto", then a transformation is automatically selected using BoxCox.lambda. The transformation is ignored if NULL. Otherwise, data transformed before model is estimated.

biasadj

Use adjusted back-transformed mean for Box-Cox transformations. If transformed data is used to produce forecasts and fitted values, a regular back transformation will result in median forecasts. If biasadj is TRUE, an adjustment will be made to produce mean forecasts and fitted values.

...

Other arguments passed to lm()

Details

tslm is largely a wrapper for lm() except that it allows variables "trend" and "season" which are created on the fly from the time series characteristics of the data. The variable "trend" is a simple time trend and "season" is a factor indicating the season (e.g., the month or the quarter depending on the frequency of the data).

Value

Returns an object of class "lm".

Author(s)

Mitchell O'Hara-Wild and Rob J Hyndman

See Also

forecast.lm, lm.

Examples

y <- ts(rnorm(120,0,3) + 1:120 + 20*sin(2*pi*(1:120)/12), frequency=12)
fit <- tslm(y ~ trend + season)
plot(forecast(fit, h=20))

Identify and replace outliers in a time series

Description

Uses supsmu for non-seasonal series and a periodic stl decomposition with seasonal series to identify outliers and estimate their replacements.

Usage

tsoutliers(x, iterate = 2, lambda = NULL)

Arguments

x

time series

iterate

the number of iterations required

lambda

Box-Cox transformation parameter. If lambda="auto", then a transformation is automatically selected using BoxCox.lambda. The transformation is ignored if NULL. Otherwise, data transformed before model is estimated.

Value

index

Indicating the index of outlier(s)

replacement

Suggested numeric values to replace identified outliers

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman

References

Hyndman (2021) "Detecting time series outliers" https://robjhyndman.com/hyndsight/tsoutliers/.

See Also

na.interp, tsclean

Examples

data(gold)
tsoutliers(gold)

Australian total wine sales

Description

Australian total wine sales by wine makers in bottles <= 1 litre. Jan 1980 – Aug 1994.

Usage

wineind

Format

Time series data

Source

Time Series Data Library. https://pkg.yangzhuoranyang.com/tsdl/

Examples

tsdisplay(wineind)

Quarterly production of woollen yarn in Australia

Description

Quarterly production of woollen yarn in Australia: tonnes. Mar 1965 – Sep 1994.

Usage

woolyrnq

Format

Time series data

Source

Time Series Data Library. https://pkg.yangzhuoranyang.com/tsdl/

Examples

tsdisplay(woolyrnq)