[R] R -HELP REQUEST

2013-02-05 Thread Mahmoud Coker
Good morning to you all, Sorry for taking your time from your research and teaching schedules.   If you have a non-stationary univariate time Series data that has the transformation: Say; l.dat-log (series) d.ldat-diff (l.dat, differences=1) and you fit say arima model. predit.arima-predict

Re: [R] R -HELP REQUEST

2013-02-05 Thread Rolf Turner
If you just want point forecasts, it's simple: Let your original series be X_t, t=1, ..., N. Let Y_t = log(X_t). Let Z_t = Y_t - Y_{t-1}, t = 2, ..., N. Fit your model and forecast, obtaining Z-hat__1, ..., Z-hat_10. Then Y-hat_{N+1} = Y_N + Z-hat_1, Y-hat_{N+2} = Y-hat_{N+1} + Z-hat_2, .,