Time Series Analysis with Generalized Additive Models

One intuitive way to make forecasts would be to refer to recent time points. Today's stock prices would likely be more similar to yesterday's prices than those from five years ago. Hence, we would give more weight to recent than to older prices in predicting today's price. These correlations between past and present values demonstrate temporal dependence, which forms the basis of a popular time series analysis technique called ARIMA (Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average). ARIMA accounts for both seasonal variability and one-off'shocks' in the past to make future predictions.