The Monash time series forecasting respository is a comprehensive collection of time series data made available in a convenient form to encourage empirical forecast evaluations. The repository includes the data from many forecasting competitions including the M1, M3, M4, NN5, tourism, and KDD cup 2018, as well as many other data sets from diverse applications. The associated paper discusses the various data sets and their characteristics. Where a time series collection contains data with different observation frequencies, they are split into different data sets so that the series within each data set has the same frequency.
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I’ve had several requests for an R function to simulate future values from a TBATS model. We will eventually include TBATS in the fable package, and the facilities will be added there. But in the meantime, if you are using the forecast package and want to simulate from a fitted TBATS model, here is how do it.
Simulating via one-step forecasts Doing it efficiently would require a more complicated approach, but this is super easy if you are willing to sacrifice some speed.
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Employers often contact me asking how to find a good statistician, econometrician or forecaster for their organization. Students also ask me how to go about finding a job when they finish their degree. This post is for both groups, hopefully making it easier for them to pair up appropriately.
General online job sites such as seek or careerjet are ok, but job-seekers can find it hard to find the relevant openings because job titles are so varied.
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