Gaussian random fuzzy and nature-inspired neural networks: a novel approach to Brent oil price prediction
摘要
Given the volatile nature of oil prices in the wake of COVID-19 and the Russia-Ukraine war, the need for advanced prediction models is evident. The Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average model estimated through the maximum likelihood method with Marquardt-BFGS optimisation (ARIMA-BFGS) was used to select the relevant predictors for three different models: the Extreme Learning Machine (ELM), the newly introduced Evidential Neural Network for Regression with Gaussian Random Fuzzy numbers (EVNN-FUZZY) and an Artificial Neural Network fine-tuned with Particle Swarm Optimisation (ANN-PSO). Formal unit root tests, Augmented Dickey Fuller (ADF) and Phillips-Perron (PP) are used to test the stationarity of the Brent oil price before estimating ARIMA-BFGS. Evaluation measures such as root-mean-squared error (RMSE), mean absolute error (MAE), mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) and coefficient of determination (