Useful extensions for online books

publishing, writing

I’ve had two recent questions from readers of my online textbook (with George Athanasopoulos) which could be solved using Google Chrome extensions. Hi, I’m an MSc student and am shortly starting my project/dissertation on time series data. I’ve started reading Version 3 of your book and improving my R skills but am wondering if there’s any way I can read V3 that will allow annotation? Thanks For personal annotation of websites, the Hypothesis extension is very useful.

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What is forecasting?

forecasting

Time series cross-validation using fable

time series, forecasting, data science

Time series cross-validation is handled in the fable package using the stretch_tsibble() function to generate the data folds. In this post I will give two examples of how to use it, one without covariates and one with covariates. Quarterly Australian beer production Here is a simple example using quarterly Australian beer production from 1956 Q1 to 2010 Q2. First we create a data object containing many training sets starting with 3 years (12 observations), and adding one quarter at a time until all data are included.

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Recent papers

  • Claire Kermorvant, Benoit Liquet, Guy Litt, Kerrie Mengersen, Erin E Peterson, Rob J Hyndman, Jeremy B Jones Jr, Catherine Leigh (2021) Understanding links between water-quality variables and nitrate concentration in freshwater streams using high-frequency sensor data. Abstract  pdf
  • Alex Dokumentov and Rob J Hyndman (2021) STR: Seasonal-Trend decomposition using Regression. INFORMS Journal on Data Science, to appear. Abstract  pdf  code
  • Sayani Gupta, Rob J Hyndman, Dianne Cook and Antony Unwin (2021) Visualizing probability distributions across bivariate cyclic temporal granularities. J Computational & Graphical Statistics, to appear. Abstract DOI  pdf  code
  • Mahsa Ashouri, Rob J Hyndman, Galit Shmueli (2021) Fast forecast reconciliation using linear models. J Computational & Graphical Statistics, to appear. Abstract DOI  pdf
  • Nick Golding, Freya M Shearer, Robert Moss, Peter Dawson, Dennis Liu, Joshua V Ross, Rob J Hyndman, Pablo Montero-Manso, Gerry Ryan, Tobin South, Jodie McVernon, David J Price, and James M McCaw (2021) Situational assessment of COVID-19 in Australia. Abstract  pdf

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