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Dear helpers I'm having a problem with function HoltWinters from package ts. I have a time series that I want to fit an Holt-Winters model and make predictions for the next values. I've already built an object of class ts to serve as input to HoltWinters. But then I get an error; I've used HoltWinters a lot of times and this never hapened > dat...

I get John's value (48.8789) in 2.7.0 and R-devel (both on Ubuntu). Really seems to be a numeric issue: > HoltWinters(x, beta = 0, gamma = 0)$alpha alpha 48.87989 > HoltWinters(x * 1.0000000001, beta = 0, gamma = 0)$alpha alpha 0.6881547 > HoltWinters(x * 1.00000000001, beta = 0, gamma = 0)$alpha alpha 48.87989 Providing starting values seems to help, but not always: > HoltWinters(x, b...

An update on this: I just patched HoltWinters() to use optimize() in the univariate case, and it now computes the correct value. David John Bodley wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for the quick response. I upgraded by version of R on Windows to the > latest (2.7.0) and re-ran the analysis and get the same result of 48.87989. > >...

Hi R-users, I have a question relating to the HoltWinters() function. I am trying to forecast a series using the Holt Winters methodology but I am getting some unusual results. I had previously been using R for Windows version 2.7.2 and have just started using R 2.9.1. While using version 2.7.2 I was getting reasonable results however upon changing vers...

Hi everyone, I'm using the HoltWinters() function to do a time series analysis. The function only returns the back fitted values ($fitted) after the first year of data, which is my case, is a little more than half. However, when I use the plot() function, it plots the back fit for almost the entire data set. Any ideas on how to extra...

Hi. I have to forecast a time series of a Internet network traffic bitrate. The data are in file http://www.forumaltavilla.it/joomla/datitesi/dati.datand the sampling time is every 0.05 seconds. Now, i want to use HoltWinters forecasting. This is my script. dt=1.58443823e-9 #0.05 seconds in years dati.ts=ts(scan("dati.dat"),start=0,deltat=dt) model=HoltWinters(dati.ts) dati.forecast=forecast(model,h=100) plot(dati.forecast) When I type the command model=HoltWinters(dati.ts) R gives me the error "Error...

Hey All, First time on these forums. Thanks in advance. Soooo... I have a process that was functioning well before the 2.14 update. Now the HoltWinters function is throwing an error whereby I get the following: Error in HoltWinters(sales.ts) : optimization failure I've been looking around to determine why this happens (see if I can test the data beforehand) but I haven't come across anything. Any help appreciated! -- View this mess...

Full_Name: John Bodley Version: 2.5.1 (2007-06-27) OS: Windows XP Submission from: (NULL) (12.144.182.66) I was fitting a number of time series in R using the stats::HoltWinters method to define a single exponential smoothing model, i.e., beta = gamma = 0. I came across an example where the fitted value of alpha was not defined in the [0, 1] interval which seems to violate the lower and upper bound constraints used for the optim method. On my computer the following code...

Hello, I would like to look at the compiled C code behind HoltWinters from the stats package. Is that possible? If so where do I find it? thanks, Spencer [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

every time i try to run HoltWinters i get this error message: > HoltWinters(z, seasonal="additive") Error in decompose(ts(x[1:wind], start = start(x), frequency = f), seasonal) : time series has no or less than 3 periods what's going on? somebody please help me. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabbl...

I am running R version 2.14.1 with up-to-date packages. When running the HoltWinters function as in HoltWinters(logjj,gamma=FALSE,beta = TRUE) i get back Smoothing parameters: alpha: 0.1692882 beta : TRUE gamma: FALSE In the old days (several weeks ago) i used to get back the actual beta value used as the documentation states. Is this a reporting change? How can I get t...

It doesn't do it on my system (I get a value of about 0.688 in R 2.7.0 patched on Linux), and 2.5.1 is not current. Does a better starting value help? However, HoltWinters is using optim() in a case it is not designed for (one-dimensional optimization): see the note on its help page. I think this could easily be changed, but as HoltWinters is contributed code I am Cc:ing the author for comment. On Fri, 16 May 2008, john.bodley at gmail.com wrote: > Full_Name...

...p://a-little-book-of-r-for-time-series.readthedocs.org/en/latest/src/timeseries.html births <- scan("http://robjhyndman.com/tsdldata/data/nybirths.dat") birthstimeseries <- ts(births, frequency=12, start=c(1946,1)) birthstimeseries plot.ts(birthstimeseries) birthstimeseriesHW <- HoltWinters(birthstimeseries) plot(birthstimeseriesHW) How to proceed the plotting and HoltWinters smoothing considereing only Januarys, Februarys, etc. separately. Thanks in advance. Antonio Olinto [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi, I am trying to fit the HoltWinters exponential smoothing on a monthly time series data in R. My questions are: 1. I know that the level, trend and seasonality are updated over time. So are the output coefficients a, b and s1-s12 for a specific time t (a,b and s12 for last observataion for example) ? 2. I am trying to work out the f...

Hello all, I am looking for some help in understanding how to change the way R optimizes the smoothing constant selection process for the HoltWinters function. I'm a SAS veteran but very new to R and still learning my way around. Here is some sample data and the current HoltWinters code I'm using: rawdata <- c(294, 316, 427, 487, 441, 395, 473, 423, 389, 422, 458, 411, 433, 454, 551, 623, 552, 520, 553, 510, 565, 547, 529, 526, 550...

hi i try to use arima and holtwinter to predict drought from 1895-2006 but i cannot read whole period of time and i try to do the exponent fitting, but it comes out as the coordinate x-y error i send the source code and data to take a look if anyone can help me, i am really new in R thank u so much jam

Dear All, I was wondering why the forecast for an additive HoltWinters model is given by Yhat[t+h] = a[t] + h * b[t] + s[t + 1 + (h - 1) mod p]. I am a student and new to time series analysis and forecasting. That said, I considered t = 13 and h = 1: Yhat[13+1] = a[13] + b[13] + s[13 + 1] It seems odd that to predict Yhat[14], you would need a s[14] which in turn de...

I want to forecaste the call number everyday for a call-center. Now I have removed the influence of the fluctuation with some method, so only thing left is to analyze the trend of the call number every day. I have thought of two ways: regression and HoltWinters smooth. But when I use regression, I find some day's call number will bcome negative, which is obviously unreasonabe. If I use HoltWinters smooth ,I let the gamma parameter equal to 0 because I needn't analyze the seasonal fact, but the result shows that the increasing trend is too big. I a...

I have a misunderstanding on the residuals function in 'R'. In the stats package the residuals for the output of a HoltWinters fit is residuals.HoltWinters and the source looks like: > stats:::residuals.HoltWinters function (object, ...) object$x - object$fitted[, 1] <environment: namespace:stats> > If I execute the following code (I only include the forecast package for the data set): library("foreca...

Need your expertise for the theoretical approach to deduce the p-values for the level, trend and seasonality parameters. I wonder if there's source code available. Thanks group. Kel