Is the Prophet reliable?

It works best with time series that have strong seasonal effects and several seasons of historical data. Prophet is robust to missing data and shifts in the trend, and typically handles outliers well . Seasonal effects caused by human behavior: weekly, monthly and yearly cycles, dips and peaks on public holidays.

Prophet certainly is a good choice for producing quick accurate forecasts . It has intuitive parameters that can be tweaked by someone who has good domain knowledge but lacks technical skills in forecasting models.10 May 2018

Linear Growth : This is the default setting for Prophet. It uses a set of piecewise linear equations with differing slopes between change points.19 Şub 2021