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Figure 2.

Model selection: ARIMA and Holt's nonlinear ETS model and fit criteria
| Fruit | MODEL | AIC | RMSE | MAE | MAPE | Theil | BP | VP | CVP | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARIMA | |||||||||
| APPLE | (2. 1. 0) | 13.43 | 258.97 | 215.547 | 35.440 | 0.088 | 0.387 | 0.052 | 0.560 | 
| BANANA | (0. 1. 1) | 16.90 | 6026.99 | 4972.23 | 80.192 | 0.171 | 0.616 | 0.070 | 0.313 | 
| GRAPE | (0. 1. 2) | 13.46 | 813.57 | 710.26 | 219.61 | 0.260 | 0.760 | 0.003 | 0.236 | 
| PINEAPPLE | (0. 1. 3) | 11.83 | 113.25 | 87.964 | 11.792 | 0.053 | 0.075 | 0.004 | 0.919 | 
| MANGO | (2. 2. 4) | 16.59 | 7706.93 | 6078.89 | 47.890 | 0.240 | 0.622 | 0.283 | 0.093 | 
| Holt's nonlinear ETS | |||||||||
| APPLE | M M A | 842.86 | 240.93 | 147.58 | 12.97 | 0.086 | 0.014 | 0.026 | 0.95 | 
| BANANA | M M A | 1032.30 | 1085.85 | 696.71 | 5.732 | 0.033 | 0.005 | 0.659 | 19.53 | 
| GRAPE | M M A | 774.118 | 202.411 | 93.524 | 12.162 | 0.078 | 0.006 | 0.011 | 0.69 | 
| PINEAPPLE | M A N | 763.445 | 89.846 | 60.584 | 7.219 | 0.043 | 0.005 | 0.000 | 0.138 | 
| MANGO | M M N | 1038.17 | 918.334 | 520.421 | 4.014 | 0.038 | 0.022 | 0.353 | 13.84 | 
Results of statistical tests to compare actual and forecast results between ARIMA and ETS models
| Fruit | Diebold–Mariano test | Giacomini–White test | Clark–West test | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| statistic | p | statistic | p | statistic | p | |
| APPLE | 0.235 | 0.814 | 0.116 | 0.733 | 3.734 | <0.000 | 
| BANANA | 4.746 | 0.000 | 9.879 | 0.001 | 8.209 | <0.000 | 
| GRAPE | 6.017 | <0.000 | 16.849 | <0.000 | 10.337 | <0.000 | 
| PINEAPPLE | 2.052 | 0.046 | 3.182 | 0.074 | 4.163 | <0.000 | 
| MANGO | 4.142 | <0.000 | 6.835 | 0.008 | 6.953 | <0.000 | 
Parameters of ETS models
| Fruit | Parameters | Initial states | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| α | β | ϕ | level | trend | |
| APPLE | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.965 | 172.295 | 1.055 | 
| BANANA | 0.165 | 0.000 | 1.000 | 2133.632 | 1.049 | 
| GRAPE | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.430 | 62.190 | 1.070 | 
| PINEAPPLE | 0.944 | 0.000 | - | 39.588 | 33.480 | 
| MANGO | 0.728 | 0.055 | - | 6907.784 | 0.055 | 
Descriptive statistics of the empirical data set
| Statistic | APPLE | BANANA | GRAPE | MANGO | PINEAPPLE | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | 1153.465 | 12282.65 | 889.9539 | 11091.62 | 904.2272 | 
| Median | 1120.822 | 7503.050 | 414.3915 | 9559.610 | 837.1935 | 
| Maximum | 2891.000 | 31504.00 | 3125.000 | 25631.00 | 1984.000 | 
| Minimum | 90.00000 | 2257.000 | 70.00000 | 6988.000 | 76.00000 | 
| Std. Dev. | 751.9735 | 10155.63 | 928.9188 | 4863.780 | 515.1081 | 
| CV (%) | 65.1925 | 82.6827 | 104.3783 | 43.8509 | 56.9666 | 
| Skewness | 0.428803 | 0.763810 | 1.081578 | 1.592267 | 0.344042 | 
| Kurtosis | 2.330973 | 2.019532 | 2.922950 | 4.824546 | 2.073819 | 
| Jarque–Bera (Statistic) | 2.957718 | 8.237345 | 11.71295 | 33.67557 | 3.328177 | 
| Probability (Jarque–Bera test) | 0.227898 | 0.016266 | 0.002861 | 0.000000 | 0.189363 | 
State space equations for each of the models in the Holt's nonlinear
| Trend | Additive Error Models | Trend | Multiplicative Error Models | 
|---|---|---|---|
| N | yt = lt−1 + ɛt | N | yt = lt−1 (1 + ɛt) | 
| A | yt = lt−1 + bt−1 + ɛt | M | yt = (lt−1 + bt−1) (1 + ɛt) | 
| AD | yt = lt−1 + ϕbt−q + βɛt | MD | yt = (lt−1 + ϕbt−1) (1 + ɛt) | 
Unit root test results
| Fruit | Ng–Perron test | Park test | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MZa | MZt | MSB | MPT | Statistic | Critical % value | |
| APPLE | −4.655 | −1.399 | 0.287 | 18.353 | 0.473 | −2.250 | 
| D (APPLE)* | −44.491 | −4.683 | 0.105 | 2.220 | −10.140 | −3.058 | 
| BANANA | −1.800 | −0.841 | 0.467 | 42.823 | 0.751 | −2.302 | 
| D (BANANA)* | −28.083 | −3.747 | 0.133 | 3.246 | −5.941 | −3.103 | 
| GRAPE | −4.829 | −1.323 | 0.274 | 17.601 | 2.367 | −2.166 | 
| D (GRAPE)* | −66.590 | −5.769 | 0.086 | 1.370 | −7.225 | −3.032 | 
| PINEAPPLE | −16.870 | −2.898 | 0.171 | 5.438 | 0.063 | −2.072 | 
| D (PINEAPPLE)* | −28.758 | −3.783 | 0.131 | 3.215 | −6.279 | −2.992 | 
| MANGO | −1.232 | −0.429 | 0.348 | 32.137 | 3.472 | −2.342 | 
| D (MANGO)* | −28.891 | −3.730 | 0.129 | 3.559 | −7.334 | −3.170 | 
| Critical 5% value | −17.3 | −2.91 | 0.168 | 5.48 | ||