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Statistics and Its Interface
Volume 3 (2010)
Number 3
Assessing the stability of long-horizon SSA forecasting
Pages: 321 – 327
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4310/SII.2010.v3.n3.a5
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Abstract
We start with formalizing the problem of assessing the stability of long-horizon forecasting of a given family of forecasting techniques. Next, we argue that in some applications the so-called singular-spectrum analysis (SSA) could be a suitable family of techniques to consider. We then apply the proposed methodology to two simulated time series and also to the Earth temperature records. We demonstrate that the SSA forecasts of the temperatures appear to be more stable at present than three-four years ago.
Keywords
singular spectrum analysis, stability of forecasts, long-horizon forecasting, retrospective forecasts, SSA vector forecasting
2010 Mathematics Subject Classification
62M20
Published 1 January 2010