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Naive

A simple model using the last value as a prediction for the future.

The naive model is very basic, and used as a benchmark for the other models. It simply works by taking the last historic value and using it as the forecast. Mathematically the forecast point of the series Yt can be written as

where εt​ is the error term which is not explained by the model.

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