Sales Forecasting of an Airline Company(Time Series Analysis)

Submitted By:-Ankush RoyAshitha VS

Koushik RakshitKrishna B

Roma Agrawal

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Agenda

Introduction Objective Data Preparation

Check for Volatility Check for Non-Stationarity Check for Seasonality

Creation of Test and Training Datasets Building Model and Validation Forecasting Graphical Representation Appendix

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Introduction

What is Time Series Analysis?Time series analysis comprises methods for analyzing time series data in order to extract meaningful statistics and other characteristics of the data.

Time series forecasting is the use of a model to predict future values based on previously observed values.

Component of Time Series:1. Seasonal variations: repeats over a specific period such as a day, week, month,

season, etc.2. Trend variations: up or down movement in a reasonably predictable pattern3. Cyclical variations: that correspond with business or economic 'boom-bust'

cycles or follow their own peculiar cycles4. Random variations: Irregular erratic fluctuations

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Objective

Data Description:

The dataset contains two variables: DATE and AIR.1. DATE: contains sorted SAS date values recorded from Jan 1949 to Dec 1960. 2. AIR: contains the sales value in that month

Objective:On the basis of given data, predict the sales for next 12 months (Jan 1961 to Dec 1961)

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• Scatterplot created by taking time on x-axis & sales on y-axis to get an idea about data

• A Japanese fan shaped or an inverted fan shaped plots are indicators of high volatile data

• Transformation needs to be done to convert high volatile data to low volatile

• In our case, the initial graph was fan shaped. We have gone for log and square root transformations

• Among the two LOG provided a better result & hence it was chosen.

Data PreparationVolatility Check

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• A non stationary data is completely memory less with no fixed patterns.Such a data can’t be used for forecasting

• Non-Stationarity is checked by using Augmented Dickey Fuller Test (ADF).

• Non-Stationarity can be removed by differencing

• In our case, data was found to be non-stationary

• Hence, differencing was done to make data stationary

Data PreparationNon-Stationarity Check

Note: Differencing was done on LOG transformed data

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• Autocorrelation function(ACF) gives the correlation between Y(t) & Y(t-s); S is the period of lag

• If ACF gives high values at fixed interval, then it can be considered as period of seasonality

• A differencing of same order would be done to de-seasonalize the data

• In our case,it was found that ACF gave high values at fixed intervals of 12 (so, S=12)

• Hence differencing was done at an interval of 12

Data PreparationSeasonality Check

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Creation of Test and Training Dataset

Training Dataset: Part of dataset which is used to build a model

Test Dataset: Part of dataset used to validate the model built

Forecasting needs to be done for 1 year(12 months), therefore we will keep last one year of data (year 1960) as the test dataset and rest of the data will be used to built the model as a training dataset.

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Building Model and Validation

MINIC (Minimum Information Criteria) option under PROC ARIMA generates the minimum BIC (Bayesian Information Criteria) Model after exploring all the possible combinations of ‘p’ (Auto Regressive) and ‘q’ (Moving Average) lags from 0 to 5 (default).

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By observation, we can see that the minimum of the matrix is the value -6.3503 corresponding to AR 3 and MA 0 location(i.e. p=3 & q=0).

We will consider all the models in the neighborhood of this model and for each of them will generate AIC (Akaike Information Criteria) and SBC (Schwartz Bayesian Criteria) and calculate the average of them.

We will select the top 6-7 models based on relatively lower value of the average and for each of them generate forecasts.

Detailed excel sheet for all AIC,SBC and MAPE values is at Location

Building Model and ValidationContinued…

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Forecasting

The forecasts generated (for the year 1960) for each of the 6 combination selected from AIC & SBC separately compared with the actual values of the same time point stored in the test dataset

‘MAPE’ (Mean Absolute Percentage Error) is calculated for above 6 forecasted values for the year 1960

Lowest MAPE value comes out to be for P=0 and Q=3, hence final forecasting will be done using this model.

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Forecasted Values

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Graphical Representation

Jan-

49

May

-49

Sep-4

9

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50

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-50

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51

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-51

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52

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-52

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-53

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54

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-54

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55

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-55

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56

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-56

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-57

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-58

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-59

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-60

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-61

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Actual Vs Forecast

Actual Sales Values Forecasted Sales Values

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Appendix

Full Code is at “SAS code for forecasting”

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