Experimental investigation of forecasting methods based on data compression algorithms

Author: Ryabko B.   Monarev V.  

Publisher: MAIK Nauka/Interperiodica

ISSN: 0032-9460

Source: Problems of Information Transmission, Vol.41, Iss.1, 2005-01, pp. : 65-69

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Abstract

We suggest and experimentally investigate a method to construct forecasting algorithms based on data compression methods (or the so-called archivers). By the example of predicting currency exchange rates we show that the precision of thus obtained predictions is relatively high.