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Autoregression

Explore autoregression, a key time series forecasting method that models a variable based on its past values. Understand how AR models work, how to select lag parameters, and implement AR forecasts using Python's ARIMA function to analyze and predict future data.

Understanding autoregression

Autoregression, as the name suggests, is a regression of a value over itself at some other moment. It means we look at the model like this:

xt=α+β1xt1+...+βnxtn+ϵx_t=\alpha+\beta_1x_{t-1}+...+\beta_n x_{t-n}+\epsilon ...