Assessing Potentiality of Support Vector Machine Method in Crude Oil Price Forecasting

Lean Yu; Xun Zhang; Shouyang Wang

doi:10.12973/ejmste/77926

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Lean Yu ¹ ^* , Xun Zhang ², Shouyang Wang ²

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¹ School of Economics and Management, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, CHINA² Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, CHINA^* Corresponding Author

This article belongs to the special issue "Problems of Application Analysis in Knowledge Management and Science-Mathematics-Education".

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Crude oil price forecasting is one of the most important topics in the field of energy research. Accordingly, numerous methods such as statistical, econometrical and intelligent approaches are applied for crude oil price forecasting. In this paper, a typical competitive learning algorithm, support vector machine (SVM), is empirically investigated to verify the feasibility and potentiality of SVM in crude oil price forecasting. For this purpose, five different prediction models, feed-forward neural networks (FNN), auto-regressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) model, fractional integrated ARIMA (ARFIMA) model, Markov-switching ARFIMA (MS-ARFIMA) model, and random walk (RW) model are used in the study. Experimental results obtained show that the SVM model outperforms the other five methods, implying that it is a fairly good candidate for crude oil price forecasting in terms of either one-step prediction or multi-step prediction.

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support vector machines
artificial neural networks
ARIMA model
ARFIMA model
Markov-switching ARFIMA model

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EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed, Volume 13, Issue 12, December 2017, 7893-7904

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Yu, L., Zhang, X., & Wang, S. (2017). Assessing Potentiality of Support Vector Machine Method in Crude Oil Price Forecasting. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 13(12), 7893-7904. https://doi.org/10.12973/ejmste/77926

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Yu L, Zhang X, Wang S. Assessing Potentiality of Support Vector Machine Method in Crude Oil Price Forecasting. EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed. 2017;13(12):7893-904. https://doi.org/10.12973/ejmste/77926

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Yu L, Zhang X, Wang S. Assessing Potentiality of Support Vector Machine Method in Crude Oil Price Forecasting. EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed. 2017;13(12), 7893-7904. https://doi.org/10.12973/ejmste/77926

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Yu, Lean, Xun Zhang, and Shouyang Wang. "Assessing Potentiality of Support Vector Machine Method in Crude Oil Price Forecasting". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education 2017 13 no. 12 (2017): 7893-7904. https://doi.org/10.12973/ejmste/77926

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Yu, L., Zhang, X., and Wang, S. (2017). Assessing Potentiality of Support Vector Machine Method in Crude Oil Price Forecasting. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 13(12), pp. 7893-7904. https://doi.org/10.12973/ejmste/77926

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Yu, Lean et al. "Assessing Potentiality of Support Vector Machine Method in Crude Oil Price Forecasting". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, vol. 13, no. 12, 2017, pp. 7893-7904. https://doi.org/10.12973/ejmste/77926