Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Iowa, 2009. / Thesis supervisor: John Geweke. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 71-73).

Thesis (M.S. in Applied Mathematics) Naval Postgraduate School, June 1997. / Thesis advisors, Christopher Frenzen, Philip Beaver. Includes bibliographical references (p. 103-104). Also available online.

Electricity load forecasts now form an essential part of the routine operations of electricity companies. The complexity of the short-term load forecasting (STLF) problem arises from the multiple seasonal components, the change in consumer behaviour during holiday seasons and other social and religious events that affect electricity consumption. The aim of this research is to produce models for electricity demand that can be used to further the understanding of the dynamics of electricity consumption in South Wales. These models can also be used to produce weather corrected forecasts, and to provide short-term load forecasts. Two novel time series modelling approaches were introduced and developed. Profiles ARIMA (PARIMA) and the Variability Decomposition Method (VDM). PARIMA is a univariate modelling approach that is based on the hierarchical modelling of the different components of the electricity demand series as deterministic profiles, and modelling the remainder stochastic component as ARIMA, serving as a simple yet versatile signal extraction procedure and as a powerful prewhitening technique. The VDM is a robust transfer function modelling approach that is based on decomposing the variability in time series data to that of inherent and external. It focuses the transfer function model building on explaining the external variability of the data and produces models with parameters that are pertinent to the components of the series. Several candidate input variables for the VDM models for electricity demand were investigated, and a novel collective measure of temperature the Fair Temperature Value (FTV) was introduced. The FTV takes into account the changes in variance of the daily maximum and minimum temperatures with time, making it a more suitable explanatory variable for the VDM model. The novel PARIMA and VDM approaches were used to model the quarterly, monthly, weekly, and daily demand series. Both approaches succeeded where existing approaches were unsuccessful and, where comparisons are possible, produced models that were superior in performance. The VDM model with the FTV as its explanatory variable was the best performing model in the analysis and was used for weather correction. Here, weather corrected forecasts were produced using the weather sensitive components of the PARIMA models and the FTV transfer function component of the VDM model.

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一個社會經濟學的目標變量，經常存在兩種不同收集頻率的數據。由於較低頻率的一組數據通常由大型普查中所獲得，其準確度及可靠性會較高。因此較低頻率的一組數據一般會視作基準，用作對頻率較高的另一組數據進行修正。 / 在基準修正過程中，一般會假設調查誤差及目標數據的大小互相獨立，即「累加模型」。然而，現實中兩者通常是相關的，目標變量越大，調查誤差亦會越大，即「乘積模型」。對此問題，陳兆國及胡家浩提出了利用準線性回歸手法對乘積模型進行基準修正。在本論文中，假設調查誤差服從AR(1)模型，首先我們會示範如何利用準線性回歸手法及默認調查誤差模型進行基準數據修正。然後，運用基準預測的方式，提出一個對調查誤差模型的估計辦法。最後我們會比較兩者的表現以及一些選擇誤差模型的指引。 / For a target socio-economic variable, two sources of data with different collecting frequencies may be available in survey data analysis. In general, due to the difference of sample size or the data source, two sets of data do not agree with each other. Usually, the more frequent observations are less reliable, and the less frequent observations are much more accurate. In benchmarking problem, the less frequent observations can be treated as benchmarks, and will be used to adjust the higher frequent data. / In the common benchmarking setting, the survey error and the target variable are always assumed to be independent (Additive case). However, in reality, they should be correlated (Multiplicative case). The larger the variable, the larger the survey error. To deal with this problem, Chen and Wu (2006) proposed a regression method called quasi-linear regression for the multiplicative case. In this paper, by assuming the survey error to be an AR(1) model, we will demonstrate the benchmarking procedure using default error model for the quasi-linear regression. Also an error modelling procedure using benchmark forecast method will be proposed. Finally, we will compare the performance of the default error model with the fitted error model. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Luk, Wing Pan. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2012. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 56-57). / Abstracts also in Chinese. / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Recent Development For Benchmarking Methods --- p.2 / Chapter 1.2 --- Multiplicative Case And Benchmarking Problem --- p.3 / Chapter 2 --- Benchmarking With Quasi-linear Regression --- p.8 / Chapter 2.1 --- Iterative Procedure For Quasi-linear Regression --- p.9 / Chapter 2.2 --- Prediction Using Default Value φ --- p.16 / Chapter 2.3 --- Performance Of Using Default Error Model --- p.17 / Chapter 3 --- Estimation Of φ Via BM Forecasting method --- p.26 / Chapter 3.1 --- Benchmark Forecasting Method --- p.26 / Chapter 3.2 --- Performance Of Benchmark Forecasting Method --- p.28 / Chapter 4 --- Benchmarking By The Estimated Value --- p.34 / Chapter 4.1 --- Benchmarking With The Estimated Error Model --- p.35 / Chapter 4.2 --- Performance Of Using Estimated Error Model --- p.36 / Chapter 4.3 --- Suggestions For Selecting Error Model --- p.45 / Chapter 5 --- Fitting AR(1) Model For Non-AR(1) Error --- p.47 / Chapter 5.1 --- Settings For Non-AR(1) Model --- p.47 / Chapter 5.2 --- Simulation Studies --- p.48 / Chapter 6 --- An Illustrative Example: The Canada Total Retail Trade Se-ries --- p.50 / Chapter 7 --- Conclusion --- p.54 / Bibliography --- p.56

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 1982. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 125-133). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 29-30).