Time Series Modelling

The analysis and modeling of time series is of the utmost importance in various fields of application. This Special Issue is a collection of articles on a wide range of topics, covering stochastic models for time series as well as methods for their analysis, univariate and multivariate time series, real-valued and discrete-valued time series, applications of time series methods to forecasting and statistical process control, and software implementations of methods and models for time series. The proposed approaches and concepts are thoroughly discussed and illustrated with several real-world data examples

Control Chart for Correcting the ARIMA Time Series Model of GDP Growth Cases

The essential prerequisite for attending the G20 conference is a country's GDP because G20 members can significantly boost the economy and preserve the nation's financial stability. Time series data can be thought of as a country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at a particular point in time. In this research, the GDP numbers from five Southeast Asian nations that are attending the G20 fulfilling are used. The total was 47 observations made yearly, which extended from 1975 to 2001. A time series analysis was performed on the data gathered. The correctness of time series models is also evaluated using control charts based on this research. The control chart is constructed using the time series model's residuals as observations. After applying the IMR control chart for verification, the results revealed that the residuals, specifically the models for GDP in Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand, are out of control. The white noise assumption is fulfilled by the time series model obtained for Brunei and Indonesia's GDP, but the residuals are out of control. Whether controlled residuals are used depends on the accuracy with which the time series model predicts the future. If the amount of residuals is under control, then the time series model produced is accurate and good enough for prediction. After using the IMR control chart to verify the residuals, the results indicate that the residuals, namely the models for GDP in Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand, are not under control. The assumption of white noise is proved correct by the time series model obtained for the GDP of Brunei Darussalam and Indonesia. With that being said, the residuals are entirely out of control. The model must improve its ability to forecast various future periods. It is a consequence of the unmanageable residuals that the model contains. Even if the best available model has been obtained based on the criteria that have been defined, it is anticipated that the research findings will improve the theories that have previously been developed and raise knowledge regarding the usefulness of testing the time series model. In addition to all of that, it is intended that the research will produce a summary of cases of an increase in GDP from five Southeast Asian countries participating in the G20 conference.

Modeling count time series following generalized linear models

Count time series are found in many different applications, e.g. from medicine, finance or industry, and have received increasing attention in the last two decades. The class of count time series following generalized linear models is very flexible and can describe serial correlation in a parsimonious way. The conditional mean of the observed process is linked to its past values, to past observations and to potential covariate effects. In this thesis we give a comprehensive formulation of this model class. We consider models with the identity and with the logarithmic link function. The conditional distribution can be Poisson or Negative Binomial. An important special case of this class is the so-called INGARCH model and its log-linear extension.A key contribution of this thesis is the R package tscount which provides likelihood-based estimation methods for analysis and modeling of count time series based on generalized linear models. The package includes methods for model fitting and assessment, prediction and intervention analysis. This thesis summarizes the theoretical background of these methods. It gives details on the implementation of the package and provides simulation results for models which have not been studied theoretically before. The usage of the package is illustrated by two data examples. Additionally, we provide a review of R packages which can be used for count time series analysis. A detailed comparison of tscount to those packages demonstrates that tscount is an important contribution which extends and complements existing software. A thematic focus of this thesis is the treatment of all kinds of unusual effects influencing the ordinary pattern of the data. This includes structural changes and different forms of outliers one is faced with in many time series. Our first study on this topic is concerned with retrospective detection of such changes. We analyze different approaches for modeling such intervention effects in count time series based on INGARCH models. Other authors treated a model where an intervention affects the non-observable underlying mean process at the time point of its occurrence and additionally the whole process thereafter via its dynamics. As an alternative, we consider a model where an intervention directly affects the observation at its occurrence, but not the underlying mean, and then also enters the dynamics of the process. While the former definition describes an internal change of the system, the latter can be understood as an external effect on the observations due to e.g. immigration. For our alternative model we develop conditional likelihood estimation and, based on this, develop tests and detection procedures for intervention effects. Both models are compared analytically and using simulated and real data examples. The procedures for our new model work reliably and we find some robustness against misspecification of the intervention model. The aforementioned methods are applied after the complete time series has been observed. In another study we investigate the prospective detection of structural changes, i.e. in real time. For example in public health, surveillance of infectious diseases aims at recognizing outbreaks of epidemics with only short time delays in order to take adequate action promptly. We point out that serial dependence is present in many infectious disease time series. Nevertheless it is still ignored by many procedures used for infectious disease surveillance. Using historical data, we design a prediction-based monitoring procedure for count time series following generalized linear models. We illustrate benefits but also pitfalls of using dependence models for monitoring.Moreover, we briefly review the literature on model selection, robust estimation and robust prediction for count time series. We also make a first study on robust model identification using robust estimators of the (partial) autocorrelation

A systematic study on time between events control charts

Ph.DDOCTOR OF PHILOSOPH