What is cross validation in prophet?

Prophet includes functionality for time series cross validation to measure forecast error using historical data . This is done by selecting cutoff points in the history, and for each of them fitting the model using data only up to that cutoff point. We can then compare the forecasted values to the actual values.

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How does FB prophet work?

Prophet is a procedure for forecasting time series data based on an additive model where non-linear trends are fit with yearly, weekly, and daily seasonality, plus holiday effects . It works best with time series that have strong seasonal effects and several seasons of historical data.

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What is DS and Y in Prophet?

The input to Prophet is always a dataframe with two columns: ds and y . The ds (datestamp) column should be of a format expected by Pandas, ideally YYYY-MM-DD for a date or YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS for a timestamp. The y column must be numeric, and represents the measurement we wish to forecast.

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