International Journal of Academic and Applied Research (IJAAR)
  Year: 2020 | Volume: 4 | Issue: 7 | Page No.: 70-81
On the efficiency of the weighted Generalized Cross-Validation and Unbiased Risk Smoothing Method for Time Series Observations with Autocorrelated Error
Samuel Olorunfemi Adams, Rueben Adeyemi Ipinyomi

Abstract:
Spline Smoothing is a technique under the Non-parametric regression used to filter out noise in observations, it is one of the most popular methods used for the prediction of non-parametric regression models and its performance depends on the choice of smoothing parameters. Most of the past works applied to smooth methods to time series data, this method over fits data in the presence of Autocorrelation error. There are many methods of estimating smoothing parameters; most popular among them are; Generalized Maximum Likelihood (GML), Generalized Cross-Validation (GCV), and Unbiased Risk (UBR), these methods tend to overfit smoothing parameters in the presence of autocorrelation error. An efficient new Spline Smoothing estimation method is proposed and compared with three classical methods to eliminate the problem of overfitting associated with the presence of Autocorrelation in the error term. It is demonstrated through a simulation study performed by using a program written in R based on the predictive Mean Score Error criteria. The result indicated that the predictive mean square error (PMSE) of the four smoothing methods decreases as the smoothing parameters increases and decrease as the sample sizes increases. This study discovered that the proposed smoothing method is the best for time-series observations with Autocorrelated error because it doesn't overfit and works well for large sample sizes. This study will help researchers overcome the problem of overfitting associated with applying Smoothing spline method time series observation.