Financial time-series forecasting has long been discussed because of its vitality for making informed investment decisions. This kind of problem, however, is intrinsically challenging due to the data dynamics in nature. Most of the research works in the past focus on artificial neural network (ANN)-based approaches. It has been pointed out that such approaches suffer from explanatory power and generalized prediction ability though.
The objective of this research is thus to propose a hybrid approach for stock price forecasting. Independent component analysis (ICA) is employed to reveal the latent structure of the observed time-series and remove noise and redundancy in the structure. It further assists clustering analysis. Support vector regression (SVR) models are then applied to enhance the generalization ability with separate models built based on the time-series data of companies in each individual cluster.
Two experiments are conducted accordingly. The results show that SVR has robust accuracy performance. More importantly, SVR models with ICA-based clustered data perform better than the single SVR model with all data involved. Our proposed approach does enhance the generalization ability of the forecasting models, which justifies the feasibility of its applications.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0829112-161635 |
| Date | 29 August 2012 |
| Creators | Chen, Tse-Cheng |
| Contributors | Wen-Feng Hsiao, San-Yih Hwang, Te-Min Chang |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0829112-161635 |
| Rights | unrestricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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