软土地区地铁车站深基坑开挖围护结构的变形原理

通过对宁波软土地区深基坑施工过程监测数据的统计与分析并应用反演法,作者得出软土地区深基坑开挖过程中围护结构的变形特点和规律,并对控制深基坑变形提出了合理的建议及措施,对软土地区深基坑施工的变形及安全控制也具有重要意义.     

Microstructure/texture evolution maps to optimize hot deformation process of near-α titanium alloy

The microstructure/texture evolution(MTE,for short) map and processing map of a new near a titanium alloy Ti65 were constructed in order to investigate the workability and microstructure evolution of hot deformation.The processing map illustrated four domains,two summit domains and two instability domains.The morphologies of the a phase changed from the spheroidization(α+β region) to the deformed and elongated β grains(near the βtransus temperature T_β),and then to the obvious dynamic recrystallization(DRX)(β region) with the temperature rising from 930 ℃ to 1140℃.Deformation in the α+β field mainly generated the texture component with [0001]or [0223] parallel to radial directions(RDs).While deformation in the β phase field formed two types of texture component with [0001] parallel to RDs and [2110] parallel to compression direction.An optimized processing map was summarized by overlaying the macro-instability map on the original processing map,and the instability domain of Ti65 alloy was confirmed in the area with the strain rate higher than 0.01 s~(-1).     

Adaptive learning from model space

Dynamic model averaging (DMA) is used extensively for the purpose of economic forecasting. This study extends the framework of DMA by introducing adaptive learning from model space. In the conventional DMA framework all models are estimated independently and hence the information of the other models is left unexploited. In order to exploit the information in the estimation of the individual time‐varying parameter models, this paper proposes not only to average over the forecasts but, in addition, also to dynamically average over the time‐varying parameters. This is done by approximating the mixture of individual posteriors with a single posterior, which is then used in the upcoming period as the prior for each of the individual models. The relevance of this extension is illustrated in three empirical examples involving forecasting US inflation, US consumption expenditures, and forecasting of five major US exchange rate returns. In all applications adaptive learning from model space delivers improvements in out‐of‐sample forecasting performance.     

基于LASSO分位数回归的中期电力负荷概率密度预测方法

中期电力负荷预测过程中往往会受到多种外界因素(诸如温度、节假日、风力大小等)的不确定性干扰,并且影响中期电力负荷预测的因素复杂多变、规律各异,难以精准地进行预测.在大数据环境下,如何在种类繁多、数量庞大的影响因素中快速获取有价值信息成为了电力负荷预测问题的关键所在.提出的基于LASSO分位数回归概率密度预测方法,首先从影响电力负荷预测的多种外界因素中挑选出重要的影响因子,建立LASSO分位数回归模型.然后,使用triangular核函数,将LASSO分位数回归与核密度估计方法相结合,进行中期电力负荷概率密度预测.以中国东部某副省级市的历史负荷和外界影响因素(包括温度、节假日及风力大小)为算例,运用LASSO分位数回归方法进行中期电力负荷概率密度预测,得到的平均绝对误差在中位数和众数上分别为3.53%和3.69%,优于未考虑外界因素和考虑外界因素未进行变量选择的情况.为了进一步验证该方法的优越性,将其与非线性分位数回归和基于三角核的分位数回归神经网络概率密度预测方法进行对比分析,说明该方法能较好解决电力负荷预测中的高维数据问题,从而获得比较准确的电力负荷预测结果.     

Forecasting energy prices: Quantile-based risk models

The goal of this paper is to use a new modelling approach to extract quantile-based oil and natural gas risk measures using quantile autoregressive distributed lag mixed-frequency data sampling (QADL-MIDAS) regression models. The analysis compares this model to a standard quantile auto-regression (QAR) model and shows that it delivers better quantile forecasts at the majority of forecasting horizons. The analysis also uses the QADL-MIDAS model to construct oil and natural gas prices risk measures proxying for uncertainty, third-moment dynamics, and the risk of extreme energy realizations. The results document that these risk measures are linked to the future evolution of energy prices, while they are linked to the future evolution of US economic growth.     

A new approach to forecasting intermittent demand based on the mixed zero-truncated Poisson model

This paper proposes a new approach to forecasting intermittent demand by considering the effects of external factors. We classify intermittent demand data into two parts—zero value and nonzero value—and fit nonzero values into a mixed zero-truncated Poisson model. All the parameters in this model are obtained by an EM algorithm, which regards external factors as independent variables of a logistic regression model and log-linear regression model. We then calculate the probability of occurrence of zero value at each period and predict demand occurrence by comparing it with critical value. When demand occurs, we use the weighted average of the mixed zero-truncated Poisson model as predicted nonzero demands, which are combined with predicted demand occurrences to form the final forecasting demand series. Two performance measures are developed to assess the forecasting methods. By presenting a case study of electric power material from the State Grid Shanghai Electric Power Company in China, we show that our approach provides greater accuracy in forecasting than the Poisson model, the hurdle shifted Poisson model, the hurdle Poisson model, and Croston's method.     

Using the yield curve to forecast economic growth

This paper finds the yield curve to have a well-performing ability to forecast the real gross domestic product growth in the USA, compared to professional forecasters and time series models. Past studies have different arguments concerning growth lags, structural breaks, and ultimately the ability of the yield curve to forecast economic growth. This paper finds such results to be dependent on the estimation and forecasting techniques employed. By allowing various interest rates to act as explanatory variables and various window sizes for the out-of-sample forecasts, significant forecasts from many window sizes can be found. These seemingly good forecasts may face issues, including persistent forecasting errors. However, by using statistical learning algorithms, such issues can be cured to some extent. The overall result suggests, by scientifically deciding the window sizes, interest rate data, and learning algorithms, many outperforming forecasts can be produced for all lags from one quarter to 3 years, although some may be worse than the others due to the irreducible noise of the data.     

Comparison of forecasting performances: Does normalization and variance stabilization method beat GARCH(1,1)‐type models? Empirical evidence from the stock markets

In this paper, we present a comparison between the forecasting performances of the normalization and variance stabilization method (NoVaS) and the GARCH(1,1), EGARCH(1,1) and GJR‐GARCH(1,1) models. Hence the aim of this study is to compare the out‐of‐sample forecasting performances of the models used throughout the study and to show that the NoVaS method is better than GARCH(1,1)‐type models in the context of out‐of sample forecasting performance. We study the out‐of‐sample forecasting performances of GARCH(1,1)‐type models and NoVaS method based on generalized error distribution, unlike normal and Student's t‐distribution. Also, what makes the study different is the use of the return series, calculated logarithmically and arithmetically in terms of forecasting performance. For comparing the out‐of‐sample forecasting performances, we focused on different datasets, such as S&P 500, logarithmic and arithmetic B?ST 100 return series. The key result of our analysis is that the NoVaS method performs better out‐of‐sample forecasting performance than GARCH(1,1)‐type models. The result can offer useful guidance in model building for out‐of‐sample forecasting purposes, aimed at improving forecasting accuracy.     

A likelihood ratio and Markov chain-based method to evaluate density forecasting

In this paper, we propose a likelihood ratio-based method to evaluate density forecasts, which can jointly evaluate the unconditional forecasted distribution and dependence of the outcomes. Unlike the well-known Berkowitz test, the proposed method does not require a parametric specification of time dynamics. We compare our method with the method proposed by several other tests and show that our methodology has very high power against both dependence and incorrect forecasting distributions. Moreover, the loss of power, caused by the nonparametric nature of the specification of the dynamics, is shown to be small compared to the Berkowitz test, even when the parametric form of dynamics is correctly specified in the latter method.     

On the directional predictability of equity premium using machine learning techniques

This paper applies a plethora of machine learning techniques to forecast the direction of the US equity premium. Our techniques include benchmark binary probit models, classification and regression trees, along with penalized binary probit models. Our empirical analysis reveals that the sophisticated machine learning techniques significantly outperformed the benchmark binary probit forecasting models, both statistically and economically. Overall, the discriminant analysis classifiers are ranked first among all the models tested. Specifically, the high-dimensional discriminant analysis classifier ranks first in terms of statistical performance, while the quadratic discriminant analysis classifier ranks first in economic performance. The penalized likelihood binary probit models (least absolute shrinkage and selection operator, ridge, elastic net) also outperformed the benchmark binary probit models, providing significant alternatives to portfolio managers.