Sales prediction is an important part of modern business intelligence.  First approaches one can apply to predict sales time series are such conventional methods of forecasting as ARIMA and  Holt-Winters. But there are several challenges while using these methods. They are: multilevel daily/weekly/monthly/yearly seasonality,  many exogenous  factors which impact sales, complex trends in different time periods. In such cases, it is not easy to apply conventional methods. Of course, there is…

In this post, we consider different approaches for time series modeling. The forecasting approaches using linear models, ARIMA alpgorithm, XGBoost machine learning algorithm are described. Results of different model combinations are shown. For probabilistic modeling the approaches using copulas and Bayesian inference are considered.

INTRODUCTION

Time series analysis, especially forecasting, is an important problem of modern…