Abstract
Most approaches to forecasting time series data employ one-step-ahead prediction approaches. However, recently there has been focus on multi-step-ahead prediction approaches. These approaches demonstrate enhanced prediction capabilities. However, multi-step-ahead prediction increases the complexity of the prediction process in comparison to one-step-ahead approaches. Typically, studies in the examination of multi-step ahead methods have addressed issues such as the increased complexity, inaccuracy, uncertainty, and error variance on the prediction horizon, and have been deployed in various domains such as finance, economics, agriculture and hydrology. When determining which algorithm to use in a time series analyses, the approach is to analyze the series for numerous characteristics and features, such as heteroscedasticity, auto-correlation, seasonality and stationarity. In this work, a comparative analysis of 20 different time series datasets is presented and a demonstration of the complexity in deciding which approach to use is given. The study investigates some of the main prediction approaches such as ARIMA (Autoregressive integrated moving average), NN (Neural Network), RNN (Recurrent neural network) and SVR (Support vector regression), which focus on the recursive prediction strategy and compare them to a new approach known as MRFA (Multi-Resolution Forecast Aggregation).
This work is supported by Science Foundation Ireland under grant number SFI/12/RC/2289.
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Bahrpeyma, F., Roantree, M., McCarren, A. (2018). Multistep-ahead Prediction: A Comparison of Analytical and Algorithmic Approaches. In: Ordonez, C., Bellatreche, L. (eds) Big Data Analytics and Knowledge Discovery. DaWaK 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11031. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98539-8_26
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