Prediction (out of sample)
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from __future__ import print_function import numpy as np import statsmodels.api as sm
Artificial data
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nsample = 50 sig = 0.25 x1 = np.linspace(0, 20, nsample) X = np.column_stack((x1, np.sin(x1), (x1-5)**2)) X = sm.add_constant(X) beta = [5., 0.5, 0.5, -0.02] y_true = np.dot(X, beta) y = y_true + sig * np.random.normal(size=nsample)
Estimation
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olsmod = sm.OLS(y, X) olsres = olsmod.fit() print(olsres.summary())
In-sample prediction
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ypred = olsres.predict(X) print(ypred)
Create a new sample of explanatory variables Xnew, predict and plot
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x1n = np.linspace(20.5,25, 10) Xnew = np.column_stack((x1n, np.sin(x1n), (x1n-5)**2)) Xnew = sm.add_constant(Xnew) ynewpred = olsres.predict(Xnew) # predict out of sample print(ynewpred)
Plot comparison
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import matplotlib.pyplot as plt fig, ax = plt.subplots() ax.plot(x1, y, 'o', label="Data") ax.plot(x1, y_true, 'b-', label="True") ax.plot(np.hstack((x1, x1n)), np.hstack((ypred, ynewpred)), 'r', label="OLS prediction") ax.legend(loc="best");
Predicting with Formulas
Using formulas can make both estimation and prediction a lot easier
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from statsmodels.formula.api import ols data = {"x1" : x1, "y" : y} res = ols("y ~ x1 + np.sin(x1) + I((x1-5)**2)", data=data).fit()
We use the I
to indicate use of the Identity transform. Ie., we don't want any expansion magic from using **2
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res.params
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Now we only have to pass the single variable and we get the transformed right-hand side variables automatically
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res.predict(exog=dict(x1=x1n))
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