Forecasting: Principles and Practice
Preface
1
Getting started
1.1
What can be forecast?
1.2
Forecasting, planning and goals
1.3
Determining what to forecast
1.4
Forecasting data and methods
1.5
Some case studies
1.6
The basic steps in a forecasting task
1.7
The statistical forecasting perspective
1.8
Exercises
1.9
Further reading
2
Time series graphics
2.1
ts
objects
2.2
Time plots
2.3
Time series patterns
2.4
Seasonal plots
2.5
Seasonal subseries plots
2.6
Scatterplots
2.7
Lag plots
2.8
Autocorrelation
2.9
White noise
2.10
Exercises
2.11
Further reading
3
The forecaster’s toolbox
3.1
Some simple forecasting methods
3.2
Transformations and adjustments
3.3
Residual diagnostics
3.4
Evaluating forecast accuracy
3.5
Prediction intervals
3.6
The forecast package in R
3.7
Exercises
3.8
Further reading
4
Judgmental forecasts
4.1
Beware of limitations
4.2
Key principles
4.3
The Delphi method
4.4
Forecasting by analogy
4.5
Scenario forecasting
4.6
New product forecasting
4.7
Judgmental adjustments
4.8
Further reading
5
Time series regression models
5.1
The linear model
5.2
Least squares estimation
5.3
Evaluating the regression model
5.4
Some useful predictors
5.5
Selecting predictors
5.6
Forecasting with regression
5.7
Matrix formulation
5.8
Nonlinear regression
5.9
Correlation, causation and forecasting
5.10
Exercises
5.11
Further reading
6
Time series decomposition
6.1
Time series components
6.2
Moving averages
6.3
Classical decomposition
6.4
X11 decomposition
6.5
SEATS decomposition
6.6
STL decomposition
6.7
Measuring strength of trend and seasonality
6.8
Forecasting with decomposition
6.9
Exercises
6.10
Further reading
7
Exponential smoothing
7.1
Simple exponential smoothing
7.2
Trend methods
7.3
Holt-Winters’ seasonal method
7.4
A taxonomy of exponential smoothing methods
7.5
Innovations state space models for exponential smoothing
7.6
Estimation and model selection
7.7
Forecasting with ETS models
7.8
Exercises
7.9
Further reading
8
ARIMA models
8.1
Stationarity and differencing
8.2
Backshift notation
8.3
Autoregressive models
8.4
Moving average models
8.5
Non-seasonal ARIMA models
8.6
Estimation and order selection
8.7
ARIMA modelling in R
8.8
Forecasting
8.9
Seasonal ARIMA models
8.10
ARIMA vs ETS
8.11
Exercises
8.12
Further reading
9
Dynamic regression models
9.1
Estimation
9.2
Regression with ARIMA errors in R
9.3
Forecasting
9.4
Stochastic and deterministic trends
9.5
Dynamic harmonic regression
9.6
Lagged predictors
9.7
Exercises
9.8
Further reading
10
Forecasting hierarchical or grouped time series
10.1
Hierarchical time series
10.2
Grouped time series
10.3
The bottom-up approach
10.4
Top-down approaches
10.5
Middle-out approach
10.6
Mapping matrices
10.7
The optimal reconciliation approach
10.8
Exercises
10.9
Further reading
11
Advanced forecasting methods
11.1
Complex seasonality
11.2
Vector autoregressions
11.3
Neural network models
11.4
Bootstrapping and bagging
11.5
Exercises
11.6
Further reading
12
Some practical forecasting issues
12.1
Weekly, daily and sub-daily data
12.2
Time series of counts
12.3
Ensuring forecasts stay within limits
12.4
Forecast combinations
12.5
Prediction intervals for aggregates
12.6
Backcasting
12.7
Very long and very short time series
12.8
Forecasting on training and test sets
12.9
Dealing with missing values and outliers
12.10
Further reading
Appendix: Using R
Appendix: For instructors
Appendix: Reviews
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Forecasting: Principles and Practice
Appendix: Reviews
Reviews of the first edition
Review from Stephan Kolassa in Foresight, Fall 2010.
Review from Steve Miller on Information Management, April 2015
Review from Sandro Saitta in Swiss Analytics, April 2015, p.5. Republished at Data Mining Research.
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