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What you might do is to develop a theoretical (guessed !) prior probability distribution (frequency distribution) for possible values of Y(t) and create/simulate via Monte Carlo a family of N possible values (Delphi Method). Then use your equation to predict the next value for each of the simulated(possible) values and then generate a histogram of those forecasts. Confidence limits for these forecasts can the based upon the actual distribution of outcomes.

We have recently incorporated that very useful feature into AUTOBOX ( a time series analysis package that I have helped to develop) and are using it to compute probability distributions ala http://probabilitymanagement.org/ for both univariate and causal models where exogenous variables are used. See here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eBkpr3P27M

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