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Forecasting Methods

In the STEPAR method, PROC FORECAST first fits a time trend model to the series and takes the difference between each value and the estimated trend. (This process is called detrending.) Then, the ...
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Fitting the damped trend method of exponential smoothing

The well-established forecasting methods of exponential smoothing rely on the “optimal” estimation of parameters if they are to perform well. A grid search procedure to minimise the MSE is often used ...
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ADAPTIVE BASIS SELECTION FOR EXPONENTIAL FAMILY SMOOTHING SPLINES WITH APPLICATION IN JOINT MODELING OF MULTIPLE SEQUENCING SAMPLES

Second-generation sequencing technologies have replaced array-based technologies and become the default method for genomics and epigenomics analysis. Second-generation sequencing technologies sequence ...
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Introduction to Forecasting Methods

This section briefly introduces the forecasting methods used by the FORECAST procedure. Refer to textbooks on forecasting and see "Forecasting Methods" later in this chapter for more detailed ...