Solved – What’s a time series model for forecasting a percentage bound by (0,1)

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This must come up—the forecasting of things that are stuck between 0 and 1.

In my series, I suspect an auto-regression component, and also a mean-reverting component, so I want something that I can interpret like an ARIMA—but I don't want it to shoot off to 1000% in the future.

Do you just use an ARIMA model as the parameter in a logistic regression to confine the result between 0 and 1?

Or I learned here that Beta regressions are more appropriate for (0,1) data. How would I apply this to a time series? Are there good R packages or Matlab functions that make fitting and forecasting this easy?

Best Answer

I asked this a long time ago but SO just popped it back up. In the case I was looking at, I ended up forecasting numerator and denominator separately, which made more sense for the metric anyway.