Bayesian Vector Autoregression Algorithm
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See: Conditional Forecasting Algorithm, Vector Autoregression, Bayesian Algorithm, Autoregression Algorithm, Multivariate Dataset, ARIMA, Conditional Forecasting.
References
2013
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_autoregression
- Vector autoregression (VAR) is a statistical model used to capture the linear interdependencies among multiple time series. VAR models generalize the univariate autoregression (AR) models by allowing for more than one evolving variable. All variables in a VAR are treated symmetrically in a structural sense (although the estimated quantitative response coefficients will not in general be the same); each variable has an equation explaining its evolution based on its own lags and the lags of the other model variables. VAR modeling does not require as much knowledge about the forces influencing a variable as do structural models with simultaneous equations: The only prior knowledge required is a list of variables which can be hypothesized to affect each other intertemporally.
2005
- (Geweke & Whiteman, 2005) ⇒ John Geweke, and Charles Whiteman. (2005). “Chapter 1. Bayesian Forecasting.” In: Handbook of Economic Forecasting, 1. doi:10.1016/S1574-0706(05)01001-3
- ABSTRACT: Bayesian forecasting is a natural product of a Bayesian approach to inference. The Bayesian approach in general requires explicit formulation of a model, and conditioning on known quantities, in order to draw inferences about unknown ones. In Bayesian forecasting, one simply takes a subset of the unknown quantities to be future values of some variables of interest. This paper presents the principles of Bayesian forecasting, and describes recent advances in computational capabilities for applying them that have dramatically expanded the scope of applicability of the Bayesian approach. It describes historical developments and the analytic compromises that were necessary prior to recent developments, the application of the new procedures in a variety of examples, and reports on two long-term Bayesian forecasting exercises.