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I am doing time series data analysis by state space methods. With my data the stochastic local level model totally outperformed the deterministic one. But the deterministic level and slope model gives better results than with stochastic level and stochastic/deterministic slope. Is this something usual? All methods in R require initial values, and I read somewhere that fitting an ARIMA model first and taking values from there as initial values for state space analysis is one way; possible? or any other proposition? I should confess here that I'm totally new to state space analysis.

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Please provide the example. Now it is unclear what is your actual problem. – mpiktas Feb 28 '11 at 11:08
Do you mean an exponential smoothing state space model? What R packages are you using? – Zach May 7 '11 at 22:27
are you trying to compare models, or do you want to select a model? – naught101 Apr 29 '12 at 9:10
Firstly, as already mentioned, it is not clear what your actual problem is. You write that A outperformed B and B gives better results than A. This is confusing. Secondly, the "forecast" R package has some automatic time series methods. They include: auto.arima(), ets(), tbats() and bats(). – power Nov 30 '12 at 9:55
Can you explain what you mean when you say 'outperformed' and 'gives better results than'? – Glen_b Dec 25 '12 at 22:56

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