The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics (응용통계연구)

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Performance for simple combinations of univariate forecasting models

단변량 시계열 모형들의 단순 결합의 예측 성능

  • 이선홍 (중앙대학교 응용통계학과) ;
  • 성병찬 (중앙대학교 응용통계학과)
  • Received : 2022.02.22
  • Accepted : 2022.02.25
  • Published : 2022.06.30
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Abstract

In this paper, we consider univariate time series models that are well known in the field of forecasting and we study on forecasting performance for their simple combinations. The univariate time series models include exponential smoothing methods and ARIMA (autoregressive integrated moving average) models, their extended models, and non-seasonal and seasonal random walk models, which is frequently used as benchmark models for forecasting. The median and mean are simply used for the combination method, and the data set used for performance evaluation is M3-competition data composed of 3,003 various time series data. As results of evaluating the performance by sMAPE (symmetric mean absolute percentage error) and MASE (mean absolute scaled error), we assure that the simple combinations of the univariate models perform very well in the M3-competition dataset.

본 논문에서는 시계열 예측 분야에서 잘 알려져 있는 단변량 시계열 모형들을 이용하여, 그들의 단순 조합이 어떤 예측력을 보여주는지 연구한다. 고려된 단변량 시계열 모형으로는, 지수평활 및 ARIMA(autoregressive integrated moving average) 모형들과 그들의 확장된 형태인 모형들 그리고 예측의 벤치마크 모형으로 자주 사용되는 비계절 및 계절 랜덤워크 모형이다. 단순 조합의 방법은 중앙값과 평균을 이용하였으며, 검증을 위하여 사용된 데이터셋은 3,003개의 시계열 자료로 구성된 M3-competition 자료이다. 예측 성능을 sMAPE(symmetric mean absolute percentage error)와 MASE(mean absolute scaled error)로 평가한 결과, 단변량 시계열 모형들의 단순 조합이 아주 우수한 예측력을 가지고 있음을 확인하였다.

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이 논문은 2020년도 중앙대학교 연구장학기금 지원에 의한 것임.

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