Returns forecasts and other information for univariate neural network models.

# S3 method for nnetar
forecast(object, h = ifelse(object$m > 1, 2 * object$m, 10),
PI = FALSE, level = c(80, 95), fan = FALSE, xreg = NULL,
lambda = object\$lambda, bootstrap = FALSE, npaths = 1000,
innov = NULL, ...)

Arguments

object An object of class "nnetar" resulting from a call to arima. Number of periods for forecasting. If xreg is used, h is ignored and the number of forecast periods is set to the number of rows of xreg. If TRUE, prediction intervals are produced, otherwise only point forecasts are calculated. If PI is FALSE, then level, fan, bootstrap and npaths are all ignored. Confidence level for prediction intervals. If TRUE, level is set to seq(51,99,by=3). This is suitable for fan plots. Future values of external regressor variables. Box-Cox transformation parameter. Ignored if NULL. Otherwise, forecasts back-transformed via an inverse Box-Cox transformation. If TRUE, then prediction intervals computed using simulations with resampled residuals rather than normally distributed errors. Ignored if innov is not NULL. Number of sample paths used in computing simulated prediction intervals. Values to use as innovations for prediction intervals. Must be a matrix with h rows and npaths columns (vectors are coerced into a matrix). If present, bootstrap is ignored. Additional arguments passed to simulate.nnetar

Value

An object of class "forecast".

The function summary is used to obtain and print a summary of the results, while the function plot produces a plot of the forecasts and prediction intervals.

The generic accessor functions fitted.values and residuals extract useful features of the value returned by forecast.nnetar.

An object of class "forecast" is a list containing at least the following elements:

model

A list containing information about the fitted model

method

The name of the forecasting method as a character string

mean

Point forecasts as a time series

lower

Lower limits for prediction intervals

upper

Upper limits for prediction intervals

level

The confidence values associated with the prediction intervals

x

The original time series (either object itself or the time series used to create the model stored as object).

xreg

The external regressors used in fitting (if given).

residuals

Residuals from the fitted model. That is x minus fitted values.

fitted

Fitted values (one-step forecasts)

...

Other arguments

Details

Prediction intervals are calculated through simulations and can be slow. Note that if the network is too complex and overfits the data, the residuals can be arbitrarily small; if used for prediction interval calculations, they could lead to misleadingly small values.

nnetar.
fit <- nnetar(lynx)