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Stochastic coherenc...
Stochastic coherency in forecast reconciliation
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- Pritularga, Kandrika F. (author)
- Centre for Marketing Analytics and Forecasting, Department of Management Science, Lancaster University Management School, UK, United Kingdom
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- Svetunkov, Ivan (author)
- Centre for Marketing Analytics and Forecasting, Department of Management Science, Lancaster University Management School, UK, United Kingdom
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- Kourentzes, Nikolaos (author)
- Högskolan i Skövde,Institutionen för informationsteknologi,Forskningsmiljön Informationsteknologi,Skövde Artificial Intelligence Lab (SAIL)
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- Elsevier, 2021
- 2021
- English.
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In: International Journal of Production Economics. - : Elsevier. - 0925-5273 .- 1873-7579. ; 240
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- Hierarchical forecasting has been receiving increasing attention in the literature. The notion of coherency is central to this, which implies that the hierarchical time series follows some linear aggregation constraints. This notion, however, does not take several modelling uncertainties into account. We propose to redefine coherency as stochastic. This allows to accommodate overlooked uncertainties in forecast reconciliation. We show analytically that there are two potential sources of uncertainty in forecast reconciliation. We use simulated data to demonstrate how these uncertainties propagate to the covariance matrix estimation, introducing uncertainty in the reconciliation weights matrix. This then increases the uncertainty of the reconciled forecasts. We apply our understanding to modelling accident and emergency admissions in a UK hospital. Our analysis confirms the insights from stochastic coherency in forecast reconciliation. It shows that we gain accuracy improvement from forecast reconciliation, on average, at the cost of the variability of the forecast error distribution. Users may opt to prefer less volatile error distributions to assist decision making.
Subject headings
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Matematik -- Sannolikhetsteori och statistik (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Mathematics -- Probability Theory and Statistics (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- Coherency
- Covariance estimation
- Forecast combination
- Forecasting
- Model uncertainty
- Covariance matrix
- Decision making
- Stochastic models
- Stochastic systems
- Uncertainty analysis
- Forecast combinations
- Linear aggregation
- Model uncertainties
- Potential sources
- Sources of uncertainty
- Stochastics
- Times series
- Uncertainty
- Skövde Artificial Intelligence Lab (SAIL)
- Skövde Artificial Intelligence Lab (SAIL)
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- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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