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predict.arima Forecast from ARIMA fits

Description

Forecast from models fitted by arima.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'Arima'
predict(object, n.ahead = 1, newxreg = NULL,
        se.fit = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

object	The result of an arima fit.
n.ahead	The number of steps ahead for which prediction is required.
newxreg	New values of xreg to be used for prediction. Must have at least n.ahead rows.
se.fit	Logical: should standard errors of prediction be returned?
...	arguments passed to or from other methods.

Details

Finite-history prediction is used, via KalmanForecast. This is only statistically efficient if the MA part of the fit is invertible, so predict.Arima will give a warning for non-invertible MA models.

The standard errors of prediction exclude the uncertainty in the estimation of the ARMA model and the regression coefficients. According to Harvey (1993, pp. 58–9) the effect is small.

Value

A time series of predictions, or if se.fit = TRUE, a list with components pred, the predictions, and se, the estimated standard errors. Both components are time series.

References

Durbin, J. and Koopman, S. J. (2001). Time Series Analysis by State Space Methods. Oxford University Press.

Harvey, A. C. and McKenzie, C. R. (1982). Algorithm AS 182: An algorithm for finite sample prediction from ARIMA processes. Applied Statistics, 31, 180–187. doi: 10.2307/2347987.

Harvey, A. C. (1993). Time Series Models, 2nd Edition. Harvester Wheatsheaf. Sections 3.3 and 4.4.

See Also

arima

Examples

od <- options(digits = 5) # avoid too much spurious accuracy
predict(arima(lh, order = c(3,0,0)), n.ahead = 12)

(fit <- arima(USAccDeaths, order = c(0,1,1),
              seasonal = list(order = c(0,1,1))))
predict(fit, n.ahead = 6)
options(od)