We explore models for forecasting groups of functional time series data that exploit common features in the data. Our models involve fitting common (or partially common) functional principal component models and forecasting the coefficients using univariate time series methods. We illustrate our approach by forecasting age-specific mortality rates for males and females in Australia. 4.1 Functio...

Studies have demonstrated that changes in the climate affect wind power forecasting under different weather conditions. Theoretically, accurate prediction of both output and using statistics-based models is difficult. In practice, traditional machine learning can perform long-term with a mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) 10% to 17%, which does not meet engineering requirements for our renew...

Extended Abstract. Forecasting is one of the most important purposes of time series analysis. For many years, classical methods were used for this aim. But these methods do not give good performance results for real time series due to non-linearity and non-stationarity of these data sets. On one hand, most of real world time series data display a time-varying second order structure. On th...

Macroeconomic forecasts are used extensively in industry and government The historical accuracy of US and UK forecasts are examined in the light of different approaches to evaluating macro forecasts. Issues discussed include the comparative accuracy of macroeconometric models compared to their time series alternatives, whether the forecasting record has improved over time, the rationality of ma...

Intelligent time-series forecasting is important in several applied domains. Artificially intelligent methods for forecasting are being consistently sought. The effect of noise on time-series prediction is important to quantify for accurate forecasting with these systems. Conventionally, noise is considered obstructive to accurate forecasting. In this paper we analyse the noise impact on time-s...

Petroleum (crude oil) is one of the most important resources of energy and its demand and consumption is growing while it is a non-renewable energy resource. Hence forecasting of its demand is necessary to plan appropriate strategies for managing future requirements. In this paper, three types of time series methods including univariate Seasonal ARIMA, Winters forecasting and Transfer Function-...

In this paper, we investigate the robustness of Feed Forward Neural Network (FFNN) ensemble models applied to quarterly time series forecasting tasks, by comparing their prediction ability with that of Seasonal Auto-regressive Integrated Moving Average (SARIMA) models. We obtained adequate SARIMA models which required statistical knowledge and considerable effort. On the other hand, FFNN ensemb...