stick function for the EDA in time series

You have probably seen my post about the STI classification of Hans Levenbach (this one). Well, I’ve decided to implement it, and it has landed in the greybox package for R/Python. What’s greybox? It is a package for statistical modelling focusing on forecasting and time series analysis. I created it back in 2018 to split … Read more

Hans Levenbach’s classification scheme for trend/seasonal components

Seasonal profile of the data

Here is a curious idea: if we can somehow estimate the importance of trend/seasonal components for your data, you can use this in model building and forecasting. But how can we do this first step? Hans Levenbach has an answer with his simple EDA technique. Let me explain. The core idea is simple and neat. … Read more