Thursday, January 24, 2013

Time series cross-validation 5

The caret package for R now supports time series cross-validation!  (Look for version 5.15-052 in the news file).  You can use the createTimeSlices function to do time-series cross-validation with a fixed window, as well as a growing window.  This function generates a list of indexes for the training set, as well as a list of indexes for the test set, which you can then pass to the trainControl object.

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