An assessment of practitioners approaches to forecasting in the presence of changepoints

Chapman, Jamie-Leigh and Killick, Rebecca (2020) An assessment of practitioners approaches to forecasting in the presence of changepoints. Quality and Reliability Engineering International, 36 (8). pp. 2676-2687. ISSN 0748-8017

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Abstract

A common challenge in time series is to forecast data that suffer from structural breaks or changepoints which complicate modeling. If we naively forecast using one model for the whole data, the model will be incorrect, and thus, our forecast error will be large. There are two common practices to account for these changepoints when the goal is forecasting: (1) preprocess the data to identify the changepoints, incorporating them as dummy variables in modeling the whole data, and (2) include the changepoint estimation into the model and forecast using the model fit to the last segment. This article examines these two practices, using the computationally exact Pruned Exact Linear Time (PELT) algorithm for changepoint detection, comparing and contrasting them in the context of an important Software Engineering application.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Quality and Reliability Engineering International
Uncontrolled Keywords:
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Subjects:
?? case studiesprocess monitoring and controlreliabilitystatistical quality controlmanagement science and operations researchsafety, risk, reliability and quality ??
ID Code:
144747
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Deposited On:
15 Jun 2020 11:00
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Yes
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Published
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05 Jan 2024 00:25