11 Classical Time Series Forecasting Methods in Python (Cheat Sheet)
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Machine learning methods can be used for classification and forecasting on time series problems.
Before exploring machine learning methods for time series, it is a good idea to ensure you have exhausted
classical linear time series forecasting methods. Classical time series forecasting methods may be focused
on linear relationships, nevertheless, they are sophisticated and perform well on a wide range of problems,
assuming that your data is suitably prepared and the method is well configured.
In this post, will you will discover a suite of classical methods for time series forecasting that you can test
on your forecasting problem prior to exploring to machine learning methods.
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Overview
This cheat sheet demonstrates 11 different classical time series forecasting methods; they are:
1. Autoregression (AR)
2. Moving Average (MA)
3. Autoregressive Moving Average (ARMA)
4. Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA)
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7. Vector Autoregression (VAR)
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11. Holt Winter’s Exponential Smoothing (HWES)
Python Code. A short working example of fitting the model and making a prediction in Python.
More Information. References for the API and the algorithm.
Each code example is demonstrated on a simple contrived dataset that may or may not be appropriate for
the method. Replace the contrived dataset with your data in order to test the method.
Remember: each method will require tuning to your specific problem. In many cases, I have examples of
how to configure and even grid search parameters on the blog already, try the search function.
If you find this cheat sheet useful, please let me know in the comments below.
Autoregression (AR)
The autoregression (AR) method models the next step in the sequence as a linear function of the
observations at prior time steps.
The notation for the model involves specifying the order of the model p as a parameter to the AR function,
e.g. AR(p). For example, AR(1) is a first-order autoregression model.
The method is suitable for univariate time series without trend and seasonal components.
Python Code
1 # AR example
2 from statsmodels.tsa.ar_model import AR
3 from random import random
4 # contrived dataset
5 data = [x + random() for x in range(1, 100)]
6 # fit model
7 model = AR(data)
8 model_fit = model.fit()
9 # make prediction
10 yhat = model_fit.predict(len(data), len(data))
11 print(yhat)
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The notation for the model involves specifying the order of the model q as a parameter to the MA function,
e.g. MA(q). For example, MA(1) is a first-order moving average model.
The method is suitable for univariate time series without trend and seasonal components.
Python Code
We can use the ARMA class to create an MA model and setting a zeroth-order AR model. We must specify
the order of the MA model in the order argument.
1 # MA example
2 from statsmodels.tsa.arima_model import ARMA
3 from random import random
4 # contrived dataset
5 data = [x + random() for x in range(1, 100)]
6 # fit model
7 model = ARMA(data, order=(0, 1))
8 model_fit = model.fit(disp=False)
9 # make prediction
10 yhat = model_fit.predict(len(data), len(data))
11 print(yhat)
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It combines both Autoregression (AR) and Moving Average (MA) models as well as a differencing pre-
processing step of the sequence to make the sequence stationary, called integration (I).
The notation for the model involves specifying the order for the AR(p), I(d), and MA(q) models as
parameters to an ARIMA function, e.g. ARIMA(p, d, q). An ARIMA model can also be used to develop AR,
MA, and ARMA models.
The method is suitable for univariate time series with trend and without seasonal components.
Python Code
1 # ARIMA example
2 from statsmodels.tsa.arima_model import ARIMA
3 from random import random
4 # contrived dataset
5 data = [x + random() for x in range(1, 100)]
6 # fit model
7 model = ARIMA(data, order=(1, 1, 1))
8 model_fit = model.fit(disp=False)
9 # make prediction
10 yhat = model_fit.predict(len(data), len(data), typ='levels')
11 print(yhat)
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It combines the ARIMA model with the ability to perform the same autoregression, differencing, and moving
average modeling at the seasonal level.
The notation for the model involves specifying the order for the AR(p), I(d), and MA(q) models as
parameters to an ARIMA function and AR(P), I(D), MA(Q) and m parameters at the seasonal level, e.g.
SARIMA(p, d, q)(P, D, Q)m where “m” is the number of time steps in each season (the seasonal period). A
SARIMA model can be used to develop AR, MA, ARMA and ARIMA models.
The method is suitable for univariate time series with trend and/or seasonal components.
Python Code
1 # SARIMA example
2 from statsmodels.tsa.statespace.sarimax import SARIMAX
3 from random import random
4 # contrived dataset
5 data = [x + random() for x in range(1, 100)]
6 # fit model
7 model = SARIMAX(data, order=(1, 1, 1), seasonal_order=(1, 1, 1, 1))
8 model_fit = model.fit(disp=False)
9 # make prediction
10 yhat = model_fit.predict(len(data), len(data))
11 print(yhat)
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1 # SARIMAX example
2 from statsmodels.tsa.statespace.sarimax import SARIMAX
3 from random import random
4 # contrived dataset
5 data1 = [x + random() for x in range(1, 100)]
6 data2 = [x + random() for x in range(101, 200)]
7 # fit model
8 model = SARIMAX(data1, exog=data2, order=(1, 1, 1), seasonal_order=(0, 0, 0, 0))
9 model_fit = model.fit(disp=False)
10 # make prediction
11 exog2 = [200 + random()]
12 yhat = model_fit.predict(len(data1), len(data1), exog=[exog2])
13 print(yhat)
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The notation for the model involves specifying the order for the AR(p) model as parameters to a VAR
function, e.g. VAR(p).
The method is suitable for multivariate time series without trend and seasonal components.
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15 yhat = model_fit.forecast(model_fit.y, steps=1)
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The notation for the model involves specifying the order for the AR(p) and MA(q) models as parameters to
a VARMA function, e.g. VARMA(p, q). A VARMA model can also be used to develop VAR or VMA models.
The method is suitable for multivariate time series without trend and seasonal components.
Python Code
1 # VARMA example
2 from statsmodels.tsa.statespace.varmax import VARMAX
3 from random import random
4 # contrived dataset with dependency
5 data = list()
6 for i in range(100):
7 v1 = random()
8 v2 = v1 + random()
9 row = [v1, v2]
10 data.append(row)
11 # fit model
12 model = VARMAX(data, order=(1, 1))
13 model_fit = model.fit(disp=False)
14 # make prediction
15 yhat = model_fit.forecast()
16 print(yhat)
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primary endogenous sequence (e.g. as an AR, MA, etc. process).
The VARMAX method can also be used to model the subsumed models with exogenous variables, such as
VARX and VMAX.
The method is suitable for multivariate time series without trend and seasonal components and exogenous
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Python Code
1 # VARMAX example
2 from statsmodels.tsa.statespace.varmax import VARMAX
3 from random import random
4 # contrived dataset with dependency
5 data = list()
6 for i in range(100):
7 v1 = random()
8 v2 = v1 + random()
9 row = [v1, v2]
10 data.append(row)
11 data_exog = [x + random() for x in range(100)]
12 # fit model
13 model = VARMAX(data, exog=data_exog, order=(1, 1))
14 model_fit = model.fit(disp=False)
15 # make prediction
16 data_exog2 = [[100]]
17 yhat = model_fit.forecast(exog=data_exog2)
18 print(yhat)
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11 print(yhat)
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The method is suitable for univariate time series with trend and/or seasonal components.
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1 # HWES example
2 from statsmodels.tsa.holtwinters import ExponentialSmoothing
3 from random import random
4 # contrived dataset
5 data = [x + random() for x in range(1, 100)]
6 # fit model
7 model = ExponentialSmoothing(data)
8 model_fit = model.fit()
9 # make prediction
10 yhat = model_fit.predict(len(data), len(data))
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Hi Jason, thanks for such an excellent and comprehensive post on time series. I sincerely
appreciate your effort. As you ask for the further topic, just wondering if I can request you for a specific topic
I have been struggling to get an output. It’s about Structural Dynamic Factor model ( SDFM) by Barigozzi,
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Jason Brownlee August 7, 2018 at 6:23 am #
Thanks for the suggestion. I’ve not heard of that method before.
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Mike August 7, 2018 at 2:28 am #
I recently stumbled over some tasks where the classic algorithms like linear regression or decision trees
outperformed even sophisticated NNs. Especially when boosted or averaged out with each other.
Maybe its time to try the same with time series forecasting as I’m not getting good results for some tasks
with an LSTM.
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Jason Brownlee August 7, 2018 at 6:30 am #
Always start with simple methods before trying more advanced methods.
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Elie Kawerk August 7, 2018 at 2:36 am #
Hi Jason,
You’ve imported the sin function from math many times but have not used it.
I’d like to see more posts about GARCH, ARCH and co-integration models.
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Jason Brownlee August 7, 2018 at 6:32 am #
Yes, it is written. I am editing it now. The title will be “Deep Learning for Time Series
Forecasting”.
CNNs are amazing at time series, and CNNs + LSTMs together are really great.
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Elie Kawerk August 7, 2018 at 6:40 am #
will the new book cover classical time-series models like VAR, GARCH, ..?
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Jason Brownlee August 7, 2018 at 2:29 pm #
The focus is deep learning (MLP, CNN and LSTM) with tutorials on how to get the most
from classical methods (Naive, SARIMA, ETS) before jumping into deep learning methods. I
hope to have it done by the end of the month.
This is great news! Don’t you think that R is better suited than Python for classical
time-series models?
Great to hear this news. May I ask if the book also cover the topic of multivariate
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Yes, there are many chapters on multi-step and most chapters work with multivariate data.
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Søren August 7, 2018 at 10:27 pm #
Sounds amazing that you finally are geting the new book out on time-series models –
when will it be available to buy?
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I use Prophet.
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Hi Jason!
Firstly I congratulate you for your blog. It is helping me a lot in my final work on my bachelor’s degree in
Statistics!
What are the assumptions for make forecasting on time series using Machine Learning algorithms? For
example, it must to be stationary? Thanks!
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Jason Brownlee August 11, 2018 at 6:11 am #
The methods like SARIMA/ETS try to make the series stationary as part of modeling (e.g. differencing).
You may want to look at power transforms to make data more Gaussian.
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Real quick:
How would you combine VARMAX with an SVR in python?
Elaboration.
Right now I am trying to predict a y-value, and have x1…xn variables.
The tricky part is, the rows are grouped.
So, for example.
If the goal is to predict the price of a certain car in the 8th year, and I have data for 1200 cars, and for each
car I have x11_xnm –> y1_xm data (meaning that let’s say car_X has data until m=10 years and car_X2 has
data until m=3 years, for example).
First I divide the data with the 80/20 split, trainset/testset, here the first challenge arises. How to make the
split?? I chose to split the data based on the car name, then for each car I gathered the data for year 1 to m.
(If this approach is wrong, please tell me) The motivation behind this, is that the 80/20 could otherwise end
up with data of all the cars of which some would have all the years and others would have none of the years.
aka a very skewed distribution.
However, I do not feel as if I am using the time in my prediction. Therefore, I turned to VARMAX.
Final question(s).
How do you make a time series prediction if you have multiple groups [in this case 1200 cars, each of which
have a variable number of years(rows)] to make the model from?
Am I doing right by using the VARMAX or could you tell me a better approach?
Sorry for the long question and thank you for your patience!
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Chris Phillips August 30, 2018 at 8:19 am #
Hi Jason,
Thank you so much for the many code examples on your site. I am wondering if you can help an amatur like
me on something.
When I pull data from our database, I generally do it for multiple SKU’s at the same time into a large table.
Considering that there are thousands of unique SKU’s in the table, is there a methodology you would
recommend for generating a forecast for each individual SKU? My initial thought is to run a loop and say
something to the effect of: For each in SKU run…Then the VAR Code or the SARIMA code.
Ideally I’d love to use SARIMA, as I think this works the best for the data I am looking to forecast, but if that
is only available to one SKU at a time and VAR is not constrained by this, it will work as well. If there is a
better methodology that you know of for these, I would gladly take this advice as well!
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Roberto Tomás September 27, 2018 at 7:38 am #
Hi Jason, I noticed using VARMAX that I had to remove seasonality — enforcing stationarity .. now I
have test and predictions data that I cannot plot (I can, but it doesn’t look right _at all_). I’m wondering if
there are any built-ins that handle translation to and from seasonality for me? My notebook is online:
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Jason Brownlee September 27, 2018 at 2:43 pm #
Typically I would write a function to perform the transform and a sister function to invert it.
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Sara October 2, 2018 at 7:36 am #
Thanks for your great tutorial posts. This one was very helpful. I am wondering if there is any
method that is suitable for multivariate time series with a trend or/and seasonal components?
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Eric October 17, 2018 at 9:52 am #
Hi Jason,
In the (S/V)ARIMAX procedure, should I check to see if my exogenous regressors are stationary and
difference if them if necessary before fitting?
If I don’t, then I can’t tell if a change in X is related to a change in Y, or if they are both just trending with
time. The time trend dominates as 0 <= random() <= 1
In R, Hyndman recommends "[differencing] all variables first as estimation of a model with non-stationary
errors is not consistent and can lead to “spurious regression”".
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Jason Brownlee October 17, 2018 at 2:27 pm #
No, the library will not do this for you. Differencing is only performed on the provided series, not
the exogenous variables.
Perhaps try with and without and use the approach that results in the lowest forecast error for your
specific dataset.
I’d encourage you to test many different framings of the problem to see what works.
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Khalifa Ali October 23, 2018 at 4:48 pm #
Hey..
Kindly Help us in making hybrid forecasting techniques.
Using two forecasting technique and make a hybrid technique from them.
Like you may use any two techniques mentioned above and make a hybrid technique form them.
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Jason Brownlee October 24, 2018 at 6:25 am #
Sure, what problem are you having with using multiple methods exactly?
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Jawad November 8, 2018 at 12:33 am #
Hi Jason,
Thanks for great post. I have 2 questions. First, is there a way to calculate confidence intervals in HWES,
because i could not find any way in the documentation. And second, do we have something like ‘nnetar’ R’s
neural network package for time series forecasting available in python.
Regards
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Jason Brownlee November 8, 2018 at 6:10 am #
I’m not sure if the library has a built in confidence interval, you could calculate it yourself:
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What is “nnetar”?
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Another question, can we use the seasonal_decompose
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in python to remove the seasonality and transform our time series to stationary time series? If so, is the
result residual (output of seasonal_decompose) is what are we looking for?
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Thanks, fixed.
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Could you please help me list down the names of all the models available to forecast a univariate time
series?
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Jane December 6, 2018 at 5:21 am #
Hi Jason,
For the AR code, is there any modification I can make so that model predicts multiple periods as opposed to
the next one? For example, if am using a monthly time series, and have data up until August 2018, the AR
predicts September 2018. Can it predict September 2018, October, 2018, and November 2018 based on the
same model and give me these results?
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Yes, you can specify the interval for which you need a prediction.
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mk December 22, 2018 at 10:34 pm #
All methods have common problems. In real life, we do not need to predict the sample data. The
sample data already contains the values of the next moment. The so-called prediction is only based on a
difference, time lag. That is to say, the best prediction is performance delay. If we want to predict the future,
we don’t know the value of the current moment. How do we predict? Or maybe we have collected the
present and past values, trained for a long time, and actually the next moment has passed. What need do
we have to predict?
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You can frame the problem any way you wish, e.g. carefully define what inputs you have and
what output you want to predict, then fit a model to achieve that.
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