Time Series Forecasts and Intervals

Free SOA Exam SRM (Statistics for Risk Modeling) lesson in Time Series Models. 27 min read, ~4,006 words.

Point forecast = conditional expectation given history. Use the fitted recursion: plug in known values, set future shocks to zero. Forecast error variance grows with horizon h. For a random walk it grows linearly ( ); for stationary AR/MA it converges to the unconditional variance. 95% prediction interval =. The...

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