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Space-Time Model versus VAR Model: Forecasting Electricity demand in Japan

✍ Scribed by Yoshihiro Ohtsuka; Kazuhiko Kakamu


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2011
Tongue
English
Weight
188 KB
Volume
32
Category
Article
ISSN
0277-6693

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ABSTRACT

This paper examined the forecasting performance of disaggregated data with spatial dependency and applied it to forecasting electricity demand in Japan. We compared the performance of the spatial autoregressive ARMA (SAR‐ARMA) model with that of the vector autoregressive (VAR) model from a Bayesian perspective. With regard to the log marginal likelihood and log predictive density, the VAR(1) model performed better than the SAR‐ARMA( 1,1) model. In the case of electricity demand in Japan, we can conclude that the VAR model with contemporaneous aggregation had better forecasting performance than the SAR‐ARMA model. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.