The Naive Method
Enter Data
month <- 1:6
value <- c(17,13,15,11,17,14)
Mean Absolute Eror
forecast_a <- value[-length(value)]
actual_a <- value[-1]
mae <- mean(abs(actual_a - forecast_a ))
mae
## [1] 3.8
# The Mean Absolute error is 3.8
Mean Squared Error
mse <- mean((actual_a - forecast_a)^2)
mse
## [1] 16.2
#The Mean Squared Error is 16.2
Mean absolute percentage error
MAPE <- mean(abs ((actual_a - forecast_a) /actual_a) *100)
MAPE
## [1] 27.43778
Forecast for week 7
forecast_week7_a <- tail(value, 1)
forecast_week7_a
## [1] 14
# The value for week 7 is 14
Question 2:
Step 1: Load in packages
#Question 2
library(dplyr)
##
## Attaching package: 'dplyr'
## The following objects are masked from 'package:stats':
##
## filter, lag
## The following objects are masked from 'package:base':
##
## intersect, setdiff, setequal, union
library(zoo)
## Warning: package 'zoo' was built under R version 4.4.2
##
## Attaching package: 'zoo'
## The following objects are masked from 'package:base':
##
## as.Date, as.Date.numeric
Enter the data
df <- data.frame(month=c(1:12),
data=c(240, 352, 230, 260, 280, 322, 220, 310, 240, 310, 240,
230))
Descriptive Stats
summary(df)
## month data
## Min. : 1.00 Min. :220.0
## 1st Qu.: 3.75 1st Qu.:237.5
## Median : 6.50 Median :250.0
## Mean : 6.50 Mean :269.5
## 3rd Qu.: 9.25 3rd Qu.:310.0
## Max. :12.00 Max. :352.0
#Interpretation: the average value for the 12 months is 250
Time Series Plot
plot(df$month,df$data, type = "o", col = "purple", xlab = "Month", ylab = "data",
main = "Values of Alabama building contracts plot")

#Interpreation: The pattern shown in the plot is a seasonal pattern
Three month average
df$avg_data3 <- c(NA, NA, NA,
df$data[1] + df$data[2] + df$data[3] / 3,
df$data[2] + df$data[3] + df$data[4] / 3,
df$data[3] + df$data[4] + df$data[5] / 3,
df$data[4] + df$data[5] + df$data[6] / 3,
df$data[5] + df$data[6] + df$data[7] / 3,
df$data[6] + df$data[7] + df$data[8] / 3,
df$data[7] + df$data[8] + df$data[9] / 3,
df$data[8] + df$data[9] + df$data[10] / 3,
df$data[9] + df$data[10] + df$data[11] / 3)
Squared Error
df <- df %>%
mutate(
squared_error = ifelse(is.na(avg_data3), NA, (data - avg_data3)^2))
Calculate MSE
mse <- mean(df$squared_error, na.rm = TRUE)
mse
## [1] 143065.2
#The mse result is 143065.2
Exponential smoothing
alpha <- 0.2
exp_smooth <- rep(NA, length(df$data))
exp_smooth[1] <- df$data[1]
for(i in 2: length(df$data)) {
exp_smooth[i] <- alpha * df$data[i-1] + (1 - alpha) * exp_smooth[i-1]
}
mse_exp_smooth <- mean((df$data[2:12] - exp_smooth[2:12])^2)
mse_exp_smooth
## [1] 2593.762
Compare
better_method <- ifelse(mse < mse_exp_smooth, "Exponential Smoothing",
"Three-Month Moving Average" )
Result
list(
MSE_Moving_Average = mse,
MSE_Exponential_Smoothing = mse_exp_smooth,
Better_Method = better_method
)
## $MSE_Moving_Average
## [1] 143065.2
##
## $MSE_Exponential_Smoothing
## [1] 2593.762
##
## $Better_Method
## [1] "Three-Month Moving Average"
Question 3: Linear trend approach
Step 1: Load in libraries
#install package
#install.packages("ggplot2")
#load the libraries
library(readxl)
library(ggplot2)
Load/import data
df_m <- read_excel("C:/Users/reyre/Downloads/class16/Mortgage.xlsx"
)
summary(df_m)
## Year Period Interest_Rate
## Min. :2000-01-01 00:00:00 Min. : 1.00 Min. :2.958
## 1st Qu.:2005-10-01 18:00:00 1st Qu.: 6.75 1st Qu.:3.966
## Median :2011-07-02 12:00:00 Median :12.50 Median :4.863
## Mean :2011-07-02 18:00:00 Mean :12.50 Mean :5.084
## 3rd Qu.:2017-04-02 06:00:00 3rd Qu.:18.25 3rd Qu.:6.105
## Max. :2023-01-01 00:00:00 Max. :24.00 Max. :8.053
Make time series plot
ggplot(df_m, aes(x = Period, y = Interest_Rate)) +
geom_line() +
geom_point() +
xlab("period") +
ylab("Interest_Rate") +
ggtitle("Time Series Plot")

Question 4: Make linear trend equation
model <- lm(Interest_Rate ~ Period, data = df_m)
summary(model)
##
## Call:
## lm(formula = Interest_Rate ~ Period, data = df_m)
##
## Residuals:
## Min 1Q Median 3Q Max
## -1.3622 -0.7212 -0.2823 0.5015 3.1847
##
## Coefficients:
## Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
## (Intercept) 6.69541 0.43776 15.295 3.32e-13 ***
## Period -0.12890 0.03064 -4.207 0.000364 ***
## ---
## Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
##
## Residual standard error: 1.039 on 22 degrees of freedom
## Multiple R-squared: 0.4459, Adjusted R-squared: 0.4207
## F-statistic: 17.7 on 1 and 22 DF, p-value: 0.0003637