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The importance of predicting future values of a time-series transcends a range of disciplines. Economic and business time-series are typically characterized by trend, cycle, seasonal, and random components. Powerful methods have been developed to capture these components by specifying and estimating statistical models. These methods include exponential smoothing, autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA), and partially adaptive estimated ARIMA models. New research in pattern recognition through machine learning offers innovative methodologies that can improve forecasting performance. This paper presents a study of the comparative results of time-series analysis on nine problem domains, each of which exhibits differing time-series characteristics. Comparative analyses use ARIMA selection employing an intelligent agent, ARIMA estimation through partially adaptive methods, and support vector machines. The results find that support vector machines weakly dominate the other methods and achieve the best results in eight of nine different data sets.
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Hansen, J., McDonald, J. & Nelson, R. Some evidence on forecasting time-series with support vector machines. J Oper Res Soc 57, 1053–1063 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602073
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