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Agricultural Price Forecasting Using NARX Model for Soybean Oil


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1 ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, PUSA, New Delhi 110 012, India
2 ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, PUSA, New Delhi 110 012, India
 

The non-linear, non-stationary and complicated nature of agricultural price series makes their accurate forecasting extremely challenging. In comparison to standard statistical methods, artificial neural networks (ANN) have demonstrated promising results for predicting such series. However, the incorporation of auxiliary information can improve prediction accuracy if it is closely linked to the target series. A dynamical neural architecture called a non-linear autoregressive model with exogenous input (NARX) carefully makes use of the auxiliary information to construct a data-dependent non-linear forecasting model. The study explores the performance of NARX model for the real price series of soybean oil (soybean) using soybean (soybean oil) price as exogenous inputs. NARX models outperform ARIMA, ARIMAX and ANN models in terms of RMSE, MAPE, MASE and directional statistics as evaluation criteria. Further, the Diebold-Mariano test confirms a significant improvement in its predictive accuracy.

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Artificial Neural Networks, Mean Absolute Scaled Error, NARX, Price Forecasting, Soybean Oil.
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Authors

Ronit Jaiswal
ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, PUSA, New Delhi 110 012, India
Girish K. Jha
ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, PUSA, New Delhi 110 012, India
Rajeev Ranjan Kumar
ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, PUSA, New Delhi 110 012, India
Achal Lama
ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, PUSA, New Delhi 110 012, India

Abstract


The non-linear, non-stationary and complicated nature of agricultural price series makes their accurate forecasting extremely challenging. In comparison to standard statistical methods, artificial neural networks (ANN) have demonstrated promising results for predicting such series. However, the incorporation of auxiliary information can improve prediction accuracy if it is closely linked to the target series. A dynamical neural architecture called a non-linear autoregressive model with exogenous input (NARX) carefully makes use of the auxiliary information to construct a data-dependent non-linear forecasting model. The study explores the performance of NARX model for the real price series of soybean oil (soybean) using soybean (soybean oil) price as exogenous inputs. NARX models outperform ARIMA, ARIMAX and ANN models in terms of RMSE, MAPE, MASE and directional statistics as evaluation criteria. Further, the Diebold-Mariano test confirms a significant improvement in its predictive accuracy.

Keywords


Artificial Neural Networks, Mean Absolute Scaled Error, NARX, Price Forecasting, Soybean Oil.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv125%2Fi1%2F79-84