Compression-based methods for nonparametric prediction and estimation of some characteristics of time series

  • Authors:
  • Boris Ryabko

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Computational Technology, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, Siberian State University of Telecommunications and Informatics, Novosibirsk, Russia

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We address the problem of online prediction for time series. We show that any universal code (or a universal data compressor) can be used as a basis for constructing asymptotically optimal methods for this problem for a certain class of stationary and ergodic processes.