Forecasting energy data using Singular Spectrum Analysis in the presence of outlier(s)
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to present a comparative study on the performance of the two different forecasting approaches of SSA in the presence of outliers. We examine this issue from different points of view. As our real data set, we have considered the well known WTI Spot Price series. The effect on forecasting process when confronted with outlier(s) in different parts of a time series is evaluated. Based on this study, we find evidence which suggests that the existence of outliers affect SSA reconstruction and forecasting results, and that VSSA forecasting performs better than RSSA in terms of the accuracy and robustness of forecasts.