Explainable boosted linear regression for time series forecasting

doi:10.1016/j.patcog.2021.108144

Explainable boosted linear regression for time series forecasting

2021-12-01

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Mustafa Gökçe Baydoğan

DOI：10.1016/j.patcog.2021.108144

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Time series forecasting involves collecting and analyzing past observations to develop a model to extrapolate such observations into the future. Forecasting of future events is important in many fields to support decision making as it contributes to reducing the future uncertainty. We propose explainable boosted linear regression (EBLR) algorithm for time series forecasting, which is an iterative method that starts with a base model, and explains the model's errors through regression trees. At each iteration, the path leading to highest error is added as a new variable to the base model. In this regard, our approach can be considered as an improvement over general time series models since it enables incorporating nonlinear features by residual explanation. More importantly, use of the single rule that contributes to the error most enables access to interpretable results. The proposed approach extends to probabilistic forecasting through generating prediction intervals based on the empirical error distribution. We conduct a detailed numerical study with EBLR and compare against various other approaches. We observe that EBLR substantially improves the base model performance through extracted features, and provide a comparable performance to other well established approaches. The interpretability of the model predictions and high predictive accuracy of EBLR makes it a promising method for time series forecasting. (c) 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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Time series regression

Probabilistic forecasting

Decision trees

Linear regression

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