predict.diffusion: Predict future periods of a fitted diffusion curve.

In diffusion: Forecast the Diffusion of New Products

Description

Calculates the values for h future periods of a fitted diffusion curve.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'diffusion'
predict(object, h = 10, ...)

Arguments

object	diffusion object, produced using diffusion.
h	Forecast horizon.
...	Unused argument.

Value

Returns an object of class diffusion, which contains:

• type diffusion curve type used

• call calls function fitted

• w named vector of fitted parameters

• x actuals

• fit fitted values of model

• frc forecasts for future periods.

• mse insample Mean Squared Error

• prew the w of the previous generation

• pval p-values for w

Note

This function populates the matrix frc of the diffusion object used as input.

Author(s)

Oliver Schaer, [e-mail],

Nikoloas Kourentzes, [e-mail]

See Also

diffusion.

Examples

 fit <- diffusion(tsChicken[, 2])
 fti <- predict(fit,20)
 plot(fit)

diffusion documentation built on May 2, 2019, 9:38 a.m.