[R] R Arimax Function

[Paul Bernal]

Hello Mark,

Thank you for your timely reply. All I want to know is if the xreg argument
must contain the same amount of historical observations as the dependent
variable and if newxreg  has to have a forecast of the exogenous variable
equal to the number of periods to be forecasted.

Best regards and thanks again,

Paul

2014-12-03 22:30 GMT-06:00 Mark Leeds <markleeds2 at gmail.com>:

> hi paul: I don't have time to answer all of your questions but below
> should help.
> there'sa  better one that actually how arima is better for forecasting
> than gls
> but I can't find it right now. if I find it, I'll send it.
>
>
> http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/6469/simple-linear-model-with-autocorrelated-errors-in-r
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 11:12 PM, Paul Bernal <paulbernal07 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I am just trying to understand how the Arimax function works, so my
>> questions are:
>>
>> 1. If I have a univariate time series of sales and sales are dependent
>> upon, say inflation rates, then my xreg would be inflation rates right?
>>
>> 2. Now is I have historial data on sales (from january 2000 to december
>> 2010) then my xreg argument would be a historical time series of inflation
>> rates on the same time frame? (from january 2000 to december 2010?)
>>
>> 3. If I want to predit, say 5 years of monthly data (60 periods) using the
>> exogenous variable (in this particular case inflation rates) then that
>> means I would have to have a a 60 period forecast of inflation rates and
>> that would be my newxreg argument?
>>
>> Any guidance will be greatly appreciated,
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Paul
>>
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