directforecast function

Function to obtain h-step ahead direct forecast based on estimated VAR, VARX or VARMA model

directforecast(fit, h = 1)

Arguments

• fit: Fitted sparse VAR, VARX or VARMA model.
• h: Desired forecast horizon. Default is h=1.

Returns

Vector of length k containing the h-step ahead forecasts for the k time series.

Examples

data(var.example)
VARfit <- sparseVAR(Y=scale(Y.var), selection = "cv") # sparse VAR
VARforecast <- directforecast(fit=VARfit, h=1)