Probabilistic Load Forecasting via Quantile Regression Averaging on Sister Forecasts

IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 730-737

  Liu, Bidong ^a   Nowotarski, Jakub ^a,b   Hong, Tao ^a   Weron, Rafal ^b  

^a University of North Carolina at Charlotte   (United States)

^b WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Electric load forecasting; forecast combination; pinball loss function; prediction interval (PI); probabilistic forecasting; quantile regression; sister forecast; Winkler score

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; ELECTRIC LOSSES; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT LOADS; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; FORECASTING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SMART POWER GRIDS;

FORECAST COMBINATIONS; LOSS FUNCTIONS; PREDICTION INTERVAL; PROBABILISTIC FORECASTING; QUANTILE REGRESSION; WINKLER;

ELECTRIC LOAD FORECASTING;

EID: 85027705113     PISSN: 19493053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSG.2015.2437877     Document Type: Article

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