ForeComp: Size-Power Tradeoff Visualization for Equal Predictive Ability of Two Forecasts

Offers tools for visualizing and analyzing size and power properties of tests for equal predictive accuracy, including Diebold-Mariano and related procedures. Provides multiple Diebold-Mariano test implementations based on fixed-smoothing approaches, including fixed-b methods such as Kiefer and Vogelsang (2005) <doi:10.1017/S0266466605050565>, and applications to tests for equal predictive accuracy as in Coroneo and Iacone (2020) <doi:10.1002/jae.2756>, alongside conventional large-sample approximations. HAR inference involves nonparametric estimation of the long-run variance, and a key tuning parameter (the truncation parameter) trades off size and power. Lazarus, Lewis, and Stock (2021) <doi:10.3982/ECTA15404> theoretically characterize the size-power frontier for the Gaussian multivariate location model. 'ForeComp' computes and visualizes the finite-sample size-power frontier of the Diebold-Mariano test based on fixed-b asymptotics together with the Bartlett kernel. To compute finite-sample size and power, it fits a best approximating ARMA process to the input data and reports how the truncation parameter performs and how robust testing outcomes are to its choice.

Version: 1.0.0
Depends: R (≥ 3.5.0), stats
Imports: forecast, astsa, ggplot2, rlang
Suggests: testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published: 2026-02-20
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.ForeComp
Author: Nathan Schor [aut], Minchul Shin [aut, cre, cph]
Maintainer: Minchul Shin <visiblehand at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/mcmcs/ForeComp/issues
License: GPL (≥ 3)
URL: https://github.com/mcmcs/ForeComp
NeedsCompilation: no
Materials: README, NEWS
In views: TimeSeries
CRAN checks: ForeComp results

Documentation:

Reference manual: ForeComp.html , ForeComp.pdf

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Package source: ForeComp_1.0.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: ForeComp_0.9.0.zip, r-release: ForeComp_0.9.0.zip, r-oldrel: ForeComp_0.9.0.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): ForeComp_0.9.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): ForeComp_0.9.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): ForeComp_0.9.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): ForeComp_0.9.0.tgz
Old sources: ForeComp archive

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