Hidden Markov Models for Time Series
Walter Zucchini, Iain L. MacDonald | Chapman & Hall/CRC | 2009-04-28 | ISBN:1584885734 | Pages: 269 | PDF | 5.3MB
Walter Zucchini, Iain L. MacDonald | Chapman & Hall/CRC | 2009-04-28 | ISBN:1584885734 | Pages: 269 | PDF | 5.3MB
This book illustrates the wonderful flexibility of HMMs as general-purpose models for time series data. It presents an accessible overview of HMMs for analyzing time series data, from continuous-valued, circular, and multivariate series to binary data, bounded and unbounded counts, and categorical observations. It explores a variety of applications in animal behavior, finance, epidemiology, climatology, and sociology. The authors discuss how to employ the freely available computing environment R to carry out computations for parameter estimation, model selection and checking, decoding, and forecasting. They provide all of the data sets analyzed in the text online.