statsmodels.tsa.forecasting.stl.STLForecastResults.forecast

STLForecastResults.forecast(steps=1, **kwargs)

Out-of-sample forecasts

Parameters:

• steps (int, str, or datetime, optional) – If an integer, the number of steps to forecast from the end of the sample. Can also be a date string to parse or a datetime type. However, if the dates index does not have a fixed frequency, steps must be an integer. Default

• **kwargs – Additional arguments may required for forecasting beyond the end of the sample. These arguments are passed into the time series model results’ forecast method.

Returns:

forecast – Out of sample forecasts

Return type:

{ndarray, Series}