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Time Series with PyTorch
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Inherent to any forecast predictions is an element of uncertainty as a consequence of factors that are unknown to us, along with difficulties in measuring and modeling our data. In general, we can say that any model we build is done so with incomplete data to create approximations of reality, which will produce predictions that are influenced by many sources of uncertainty.
When you create a supervised regression model, you will separate data into exogenous variables (
) and dependent variables (
), so you can regress exogenous variables, such as price, on dependent values, like sales. You are attempting to capture patterns in training data, when passing this data through models, that may be used to predict
(sales in this case) for new points
. If you have
price of £0.6, your model should predict a value of sales (
), based on the learned model parameters; this is a point prediction. While useful, point predictions do not provide us with any understanding...