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Main Authors: Zambon, Lorenzo, Agosto, Arianna, Giudici, Paolo, Corani, Giorgio
Format: Preprint
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.15135
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  • Reconciliation enforces coherence between hierarchical forecasts, in order to satisfy a set of linear constraints. While most works focus on the reconciliation of the point forecasts, we consider probabilistic reconciliation and we analyze the properties of the distributions reconciled via conditioning. We provide a formal analysis of the variance of the reconciled distribution, treating separately the case of Gaussian forecasts and count forecasts. We also study the reconciled upper mean in the case of 1-level hierarchies; also in this case we analyze separately the case of Gaussian forecasts and count forecasts. We then show experiments on the reconciliation of intermittent time series related to the count of extreme market events. The experiments confirm our theoretical results and show that reconciliation largely improves the performance of probabilistic forecasting.