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Decomposing before creating smoothing models (time series) #101

Open carlocelis opened 6 years ago

carlocelis commented 6 years ago

It's not very clear to me why we need to "decompose" the time series. I understand that it can show a plot with 4 rows but I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be mindful of when looking at the decomposition plots. Can anyone share the value of this? Thank you!

jovanajovicbonnet commented 6 years ago

Hi, I think you don't need to decompose a time series into its component if you don't want to. As far as I understood, decomposing will allow you to see all components of a signal separately and to visually check how your trend, seasonality (if you have it) and your noise look like