Optimal Out-of-Sample Forecast Evaluation and Testing under Stationarity

Package 'ACV' (short for Affine Cross-Validation) offers an improved time-series cross-validation loss estimator which utilizes both in-sample and out-of-sample forecasting performance via a carefully constructed affine weighting scheme. Under the assumption of stationarity, the estimator is the best linear unbiased estimator of the out-of-sample loss. Besides that, the package also offers improved versions of Diebold-Mariano and Ibragimov-Muller tests of equal predictive ability which deliver more power relative to their conventional counterparts. For more information, see the accompanying article Stanek (2021) .


ACV – package for optimal out-of-sample forecast evaluation and testing under stationarity

Package ACV (short for Affine Cross-Validation) offers an improved time-series cross-validation loss estimator which utilizes both in-sample and out-of-sample forecasting performance via a carefully constructed affine weighting scheme. Under the assumption of stationarity, the estimator can be shown to be the best linear unbiased estimator of the out-of-sample loss. Besides that, the package also offers improved versions of Diebold-Mariano and Ibragimov-Muller tests of equal predictive ability which deliver more power relative to their conventional counterparts. For more information, see the accompanying article “Optimal Out-of-Sample Forecast Evaluation Under Stationarity” by Filip Staněk.

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install.packages("ACV")

1.0.2 by Filip Stanek, 5 years ago


Browse source code at https://github.com/cran/ACV


Authors: Filip Stanek [aut, cre]


Documentation:   PDF Manual  


GPL (>= 3) license


Imports forecast, Matrix, methods, stats

Suggests testthat


See at CRAN