Variance intervention
- 1 October 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Forecasting
- Vol. 8 (4) , 399-416
- https://doi.org/10.1002/for.3980080405
Abstract
Variance intervention is a simple state‐space approach to handling sharp discontinuities of level or slope in the states or parameters of models for non‐stationary time‐series. It derives from earlier procedures used in the 1960s for the design of self‐adaptive, state variable feedback control systems. In the alternative state‐space forecasting context considered in the present paper, it is particularly useful when applied to structural time series models. The paper compares the variance intervention procedure with the related ‘subjective intervention’ approach proposed by West and Harrison in a recent issue of theJournal of Forecasting, and demonstrates it efficacy by application to various time‐series data, including those used by West and Harrison.Keywords
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