Natural Gas Time Series Analysis
The author analyzes natural gas price data from 1996 to 2016 using R. After differencing to achieve stationarity, ARIMA models are fitted and the SARIMA(1,0,0)×(2,1,1)12 model is identified as best based on having the lowest AIC value and significant coefficients. Forecasting with this model shows the predicted values follow a similar decreasing trend as the actual later data. Diagnostic checks confirm the residuals exhibit white noise. The analysis provides useful prediction of natural gas prices.