On Mar 23, 2012, at 11:43 AM, Fretheim, Alexander H wrote: > > > To whomever it may concern, > > I'm a young Industrial Engineer working on Senior Design at Georgia Tech > and have found the StructTS method to be excellent for the training set for > my forecasting project. There's only one problem: I don't actually understand > what a Structural Time Series IS. I've looked up resources on it, and get > that essentially you're dividing the Time Series in to additive components > dependent on time, but have no idea how your method works or why. I've also > looked at the documentation, which is great from a programmers standpoint and > gives at least a basic format but without any idea as to how optimization > occurs. Would you be able to even just supply some C code (which I could open > in notebook, hopefully) showing how the method works/optimizes/heuristically > recommends and why? > > Sincerely, > > Alexander Fretheim
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