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Expanding mean: the mean of ip_growth over 1992-04 … t.\n- Ridge: training pairs (z_s, y_{s+1}) for 1992-03 ≤ s ≤ t−1, with z_s = (ip_s, ip_{s−1}, ip_{s−2}, oil_chg_s, fedfunds_s, permit_chg_s, neworder_chg_s, tcu_s). At every origin, features are standardised with the training-window mean and the sample SD (ddof = 1), and the target is centred on its training mean ȳ. b = (Z′Z + 50·I)⁻¹Z′(y − ȳ), with an unpenalised intercept ȳ. Forecast = ȳ + ((z_t − μ)/σ)·b. Standardisation is therefore \"expanding\" (recomputed from each origin's own training window). λ is fixed and was not tuned.\n- Errors = forecast − actual, computed on current-vintage data. Everything is in `out/analysis.py`, which is deterministic.\n- Supplementary uncertainty (`out/uncertainty.json`): a Diebold–Mariano test on squared-error loss differences, with the Harvey–Leybourne–Newbold correction, Newey–West lag 0 and 3, and t(59) reference. Also a moving-block bootstrap (block 6, B = 5000, seed 20261030) of 1 − RMSE ratio, reported as a 90 % percentile interval.\n\n## Results\n| model | RMSE (pp/month) | MAE (pp/month) |\n|---|---|---|\n| naive | 0.8831 | 0.6990 |\n| expanding mean | 0.5439 | 0.4293 |\n| ridge (λ = 50) | 0.5608 | 0.4514 |\n\n- Relative improvement of ridge vs naive: 1 − 0.5608/0.8831 = **+0.365** (ridge has 36.5 % lower RMSE).\n- Relative improvement of ridge vs expanding mean: **−0.031**, meaning ridge RMSE is 3.1 % *higher* than the mean's. MAE ranks the models the same way.\n- Answer: ridge clearly beats the naive forecast, but it does **not** beat the expanding historical mean over 2021-09 … 2026-08. It is slightly worse, and the difference is not statistically distinguishable from zero (see below).\n\n## Uncertainty\n- Ridge vs naive: DM statistic −3.36 (NW lag 0, p = 0.001) and −3.45 (lag 3, p = 0.001). The bootstrap 90 % interval for the relative improvement is [0.27, 0.42]. 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I did not explore these, because that would depart from the specified estimator.\n- The evaluation window (post-COVID recovery, 2021–2026) is a single regime, so these conclusions may not generalise.\n- README/data discrepancy on 1992-01 change values (documented above); it does not affect the forecasts materially.\nEOF\ncat > out/claims.json <<'EOF'\n[\n {\"id\": \"C1\", \"text\": \"Over 60 origins (2021-09 to 2026-08), the ridge forecast (lambda=50, expanding standardisation) has RMSE 0.561 and MAE 0.451 pp/month, versus 0.883/0.699 for naive and 0.544/0.429 for the expanding mean.\",\n  \"results_keys\": [\"rmse_ridge\",\"mae_ridge\",\"rmse_naive\",\"mae_naive\",\"rmse_mean\",\"mae_mean\"], \"status\": \"supported\",\n  \"caveat\": \"Current-vintage data; publication lags ignored.\"},\n {\"id\": \"C2\", \"text\": \"Ridge improves on the naive forecast by about 36.5% in RMSE, and the difference is statistically significant (DM p~0.001).\",\n  \"results_keys\": [\"rel_improvement_vs_naive\"], \"status\": \"supported\",\n  \"caveat\": \"DM test and bootstrap are supplementary (out/uncertainty.json); the naive baseline is weak for a noisy growth series.\"},\n {\"id\": \"C3\", \"text\": \"Ridge does not beat the expanding historical mean: its RMSE is about 3.1% higher (relative improvement -0.031), and the difference is not statistically significant (DM p~0.56-0.59; bootstrap 90% CI [-0.14, 0.04]).\",\n  \"results_keys\": [\"rel_improvement_vs_mean\",\"rmse_ridge\",\"rmse_mean\"], \"status\": \"supported\",\n  \"caveat\": \"Short 60-month evaluation window in one regime; lambda fixed and not tuned.\"},\n {\"id\": \"C4\", \"text\": \"All standardisation statistics and the target mean were recomputed from each origin's training window only.\",\n  \"results_keys\": [\"normalisation_window\",\"n_analysed\"], \"status\": \"supported\",\n  \"caveat\": \"None.\"}\n]\nEOF\n~/wp29/venv/bin/python -c \"import json;json.load(open('out/claims.json'))\"; ls out"}}]}}
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