Questions tagged [prophet]
An automatic forecasting system developed by Facebook
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Estimate the time series like an event was never happened
I have data from a website where a specific advertising campaign happened a couple of years ago. What I want to do is to estimate how the signups on that website would have been without that big ...
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Forecasting daily data with zeros in Python
I'm currently testing some forecasts on daily sales quantities. However, out of ~2000 observations I have 16 zeros.
How should I approach this? It's mainly Sundays and holidays that holds zero as ...
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Forecasting recurring orders for an online subscription business using Facebook Prophet and R
I am analyzing data from a subscription model, in which a customer must pay a recurring price at a regular interval (30 days) for access to the product.
EDIT -> Direct link to daily data: https://...
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Is Prophet from Facebook any different from a linear regression?
So what I've read about Facebook's prophet is that it basically breaks down the time series into trend and seasonality. For example, an additive model would be written as:
$$ y(t) = g(t) + s(t) + h(t)...
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How does facebook prophet handle missing data?
The Prophet paper (forecasting at scale by SJ Taylor - 2017) says the following on missing data:
Unlike ARIMA models, the measurements do not need to be regularly
spaced, and we do not need to ...
