Week 5: Accuracy evaluation

What you will learn this week

  • Fitted values, residuals
  • Distributional forecasts
  • Forecast evaluation

Pre-class activities

Read Chapter 5 of the textbook, Sections 5.4 – 5.5, 5.8 – 5.10, and watch all embedded videos

Exercises (on your own or in tutorial)

Complete Exercises 8-10, 12 from Section 5.11 of the book.

Monday lecture

Download slides

Code used in lecture

Tuesday workshop

Activities for Tuesday workshop

Code used in workshop

Assignments

Weekly quiz