Daily and monthly sugar price forecasting using the mixture of local expert models

Daily and monthly sugar price forecasting using the mixture of local expert models

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Article ID: iaor20084470
Country: Brazil
Volume: 27
Issue: 2
Start Page Number: 235
End Page Number: 246
Publication Date: May 2007
Journal: Pesquisa Operacional
Authors: , ,
Keywords: forecasting: applications, neural networks
Abstract:

This article concerns the application of the Mixture of Local Expert Models (MLEM) to predict the daily and monthly price of the Sugar No. 14 contract in the New York Board of Trade. This technique can be seen as a forecasting method that performs data exploratory analysis and mathematical modeling simultaneously. Given a set of data points, the basic idea is as follows: 1) a Kohonen Neural Network is used to divide the data into clusters of points, 2) several modeling techniques are then used to construct competing models for each cluster, 3) the best model for each cluster is then selected and called the Local Expert Model. Finally, a so-called Gating Network combines the outputs of all Local Expert Models. For comparison purposes, the same modeling techniques are also evaluated when acting as Global Experts, i.e., when the technique uses the entire data set without any clustering.

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