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Quarters are dated by their first day (YYYY-MM-01). License: FRED/ALFRED terms of use (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/legal/); BEA data are public domain.\n\n## vintages/ — the series as it existed on each origin date (ALFRED)\nRetrieved 2026-10-30 between 03:24:52Z and 03:25:10Z from `https://alfred.stlouisfed.org/graph/alfredgraph.csv?id=A191RL1Q225SBEA&vintage_date=<date>`, saved exactly as served (header `observation_date,A191RL1Q225SBEA_<yyyymmdd>`). Each file contains every quarter that had been published as of that date, with the values as published at that date (advance/second/third estimates and annual/comprehensive revisions as of then).\n\n| file | vintage date | last quarter in file (value) | rows | SHA-256 |\n|---|---|---|---|---|\n| `vintages/A191RL1Q225SBEA_vintage_2024-01-31.csv` | 2024-01-31 | 2023-10-01 (3.3) | 307 | 7ce218fb21aba2e9ee40736a1d3ee02becde628a21242ed43340dd1411d6f243 |\n| `vintages/A191RL1Q225SBEA_vintage_2024-04-30.csv` | 2024-04-30 | 2024-01-01 (1.6) | 308 | 62c1dfce6e53079837f706a5edd6f14731c91d3f630b2cad666325f2259197cb |\n| `vintages/A191RL1Q225SBEA_vintage_2024-07-31.csv` | 2024-07-31 | 2024-04-01 (2.8) | 309 | 6f94259143ad489c021648dfebe7fda9ea6d17d2bbf22a43761d1abf291179da |\n| `vintages/A191RL1Q225SBEA_vintage_2024-10-31.csv` | 2024-10-31 | 2024-07-01 (2.8) | 310 | c4c51edee290f73a951171c30a9931f4a4bc2a7584aeb92ed9ce3de1cb9e0003 |\n| `vintages/A191RL1Q225SBEA_vintage_2025-01-31.csv` | 2025-01-31 | 2024-10-01 (2.3) | 311 | 10a5e02e6ef0134dbb4091470ad28b7f59c24462364352b16fcbfb644e0faee2 |\n| `vintages/A191RL1Q225SBEA_vintage_2025-04-30.csv` | 2025-04-30 | 2025-01-01 (-0.3) | 312 | 1f19c975a6c3b721e0c4b82c014aca160c4694791bf63751e8c79c24b5085d1a |\n| `vintages/A191RL1Q225SBEA_vintage_2025-07-31.csv` | 2025-07-31 | 2025-04-01 (3.0) | 313 | f1e7c5563a6e313a58391f750023f8ea60e5a47c7f03df41f7ab593e6b2157a9 |\n| `vintages/A191RL1Q225SBEA_vintage_2025-12-31.csv` | 2025-12-31 | 2025-07-01 (4.3) | 314 | c111c070f3d074de0e725bb6164aaa83ccbf17ceda9bac9356e7f50f42a8d4a7 |\n\nNote: vintage dates are month-ends chosen just after the BEA advance estimate of the preceding quarter. The advance estimate of 2025Q3 was delayed by the October–November 2025 federal shutdown (it was not available on 2025-10-31), so the eighth origin is 2025-12-31 instead of 2025-10-31.\n\n## current_vintage.csv\nThe same series as served by FRED on 2026-10-30T03:20:36Z (`https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.csv?id=A191RL1Q225SBEA`), 318 rows 1947Q2 … 2026-07-01 — the latest revised values. SHA-256 1af2590d79adb8d3c6fad4328d306c96bb6ed9980120eae58bb9471fffbb0562.\n\n## first_release.csv\nColumns `quarter`, `first_release_value`, `first_release_vintage_date`: for each quarter from 2023Q3 on, the value in the earliest month-end ALFRED vintage (grid: last day of every month from 2023-09-30 to 2026-09-30, plus 2026-10-29) that contains the quarter — i.e. the BEA advance estimate as it stood at that month-end. 13 rows. SHA-256 ab843c9fc4e6b700f5bb95169f15fb506f7a7a1a3c22a91b31cb29031c5795bb.\n\n## Vintage caveat\n`vintages/*.csv` are genuine real-time datasets (ALFRED); `current_vintage.csv` is not — it contains revisions that were unknown at the origins. 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The advance estimate of 2025Q3 was delayed by the October–November 2025 federal shutdown (it was not available on 2025-10-31), so the eighth origin is 2025-12-31 instead of 2025-10-31.\n\n## current_vintage.csv\nThe same series as served by FRED on 2026-10-30T03:20:36Z (`https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.csv?id=A191RL1Q225SBEA`), 318 rows 1947Q2 … 2026-07-01 — the latest revised values. SHA-256 1af2590d79adb8d3c6fad4328d306c96bb6ed9980120eae58bb9471fffbb0562.\n\n## first_release.csv\nColumns `quarter`, `first_release_value`, `first_release_vintage_date`: for each quarter from 2023Q3 on, the value in the earliest month-end ALFRED vintage (grid: last day of every month from 2023-09-30 to 2026-09-30, plus 2026-10-29) that contains the quarter — i.e. the BEA advance estimate as it stood at that month-end. 13 rows. 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And does a simple AR model beat the naive \"last value\" forecast? Forecasts are scored against the **first-release** (advance) value of each target quarter.\n\n## Data and exclusions\n- `data/vintages/*.csv` (8 files, 307–314 rows each, 1947Q2 up to the latest published quarter). At each origin only that vintage file is used. Every vintage parsed cleanly: no missing or non-numeric values, no duplicate dates, no gaps in the quarters.\n- `data/first_release.csv` (13 rows) gives the actuals. For every origin, the last value in the vintage file equals the first release of that quarter, which confirms the vintages are aligned with the advance releases.\n- `data/current_vintage.csv` (318 rows) is used **only** for the revision statistic.\n- Exclusions in model estimation: quarters before 1985Q1 are left out (only post-Great-Moderation data are used), and so are regression pairs where y_t or y_{t-1} falls in 2020Q1–2021Q1 (the pandemic outliers: −28% and +35% annualised). I fixed this rule before looking at any forecast results. The naive forecast uses only the last value of each vintage.\n- Shutdown timing: the BEA advance estimate for 2025Q3 was delayed by the Oct–Nov 2025 federal shutdown. As a result the 8th origin is 2025-12-31 (5 months after the 7th, not 3), and the first release of its h=1 target (2025Q4) is dated 2026-02-28. I used the origins as supplied. Horizons are counted from the last quarter in each vintage, as TASK.md specifies.\n\n## Method\n- **Naive:** for both h=1 and h=2, the forecast is the last value in the origin's vintage.\n- **Model `ar1_1985_excovid`:** y_t = c + φ y_{t−1} + e_t, fitted by OLS separately on each origin's vintage. The sample runs from 1985Q1 to the last published quarter, minus the pandemic pairs above. That gives 150–157 regression observations; this count is `n_train` for the model rows in `forecasts.csv`. For naive rows, `n_train` is the full length of the vintage. The h=2 forecast iterates the model: ŷ_{T+2} = c + φ ŷ_{T+1}. Estimates hardly changed across origins (c ≈ 1.79–1.84, φ ≈ 0.32–0.33), so the model is close to \"shrink about two-thirds of the way toward a mean of roughly 2.7%\".\n- **Metrics:** RMSE and MAE over the 8 origins for each horizon, plus 1 − RMSE_model/RMSE_naive. The revision statistic is the mean |current − first release| over the 8 h=1 target quarters (2024Q1 … 2025Q4).\n- Everything is deterministic (no randomness). `out/analysis.py` regenerates `results.json`, `forecasts.csv` and `uncertainty.json`.\n\n## Results\nErrors are in percentage points of annualised growth, scored against first releases. n = 8 per horizon.\n\n| | RMSE h=1 | MAE h=1 | RMSE h=2 | MAE h=2 |\n|---|---|---|---|---|\n| Naive | 2.010 | 1.688 | 2.265 | 1.813 |\n| AR(1) | 1.481 | 1.223 | 1.399 | 1.021 |\n\n- The AR(1) model's RMSE is lower than naive by 26.3% at h=1 and by 38.2% at h=2.\n- The AR(1) model beat the naive forecast (lower squared error) at 5 of 8 origins for h=1 and at all 8 origins for h=2.\n- Mean absolute revision between first release and the 2026-10-30 vintage, over the h=1 targets: **0.56 pp**. Individual revisions range from 0.1 to 1.2 pp; the largest is 2025Q4 (first release 1.4, current 0.2). That is about 28% of the naive h=1 RMSE and about 38% of the AR h=1 RMSE. Measured against later-revised data, the errors would therefore look noticeably different.\n\n## Uncertainty\nWith only 8 origins, these estimates are very imprecise. Results are in `out/uncertainty.json`.\n- I ran a Diebold–Mariano test on squared-error differentials, with the Harvey–Leybourne–Newbold small-sample correction and t(7) reference. It gives a statistic of 1.47 (p = 0.19) at h=1 and 1.71 (p = 0.13) at h=2. Neither horizon shows a statistically significant gain at conventional levels. Even this asymptotic-style test is unreliable at T = 8.\n- The gains are concentrated in a few origins. Most of the advantage comes from 2025-04-30, where the naive forecast carried forward the import-driven −0.3% for 2025Q1, and 2025-12-31, where it carried forward 4.3% for 2025Q3. Dropping either origin would substantially reduce the measured improvement.\n- The h=2 sign result (model better at 8 of 8 origins) is the most robust single finding. Under a null of equal accuracy, a sign test gives p = 2 × 0.5^8 ≈ 0.008. However, overlapping h=2 targets make the origins serially dependent, so this p-value is optimistic.\n\n## Limitations and open issues\n- The evaluation sample is tiny (8 origins in 2024–2025) and RMSE is dominated by 1–2 large surprises, so the results do not generalise reliably.\n- Only one model was tried, and its exclusion rules (start in 1985, drop pandemic pairs) are judgement calls. They were fixed in advance, but no alternative specifications were tested, so there was no specification search. A full-sample AR would be heavily affected by the 2020 outliers.\n- Actuals are first releases (advance estimates). Accuracy against the current vintage would differ, because the mean absolute revision is 0.56 pp.\n- The irregular 5-month gap before the last origin (the shutdown) means \"h=1\" at that origin is effectively a backcast of a quarter that had already ended. That holds for every origin in this design, since h=1 targets the quarter in progress or just finished.\n- The model uses only the GDP series itself: no monthly indicators and no nowcasting information. Professional real-time forecasts would normally do better.\nEOF\ncat > out/claims.json <<'EOF'\n[\n {\"id\":\"C1\",\"text\":\"Real-time AR(1) (1985+, pandemic pairs excluded) achieved RMSE 1.48 pp at h=1 vs 2.01 pp for naive, a 26% reduction, against first releases over 8 origins.\",\"results_keys\":[\"rmse_model_h1\",\"rmse_naive_h1\",\"rel_improvement_rmse_h1\"],\"status\":\"supported\",\"caveat\":\"Not statistically significant (HLN-DM p=0.19, T=8); driven largely by two origins.\"},\n {\"id\":\"C2\",\"text\":\"At h=2 the AR(1) RMSE was 1.40 pp vs 2.27 pp for naive, a 38% reduction, and the model was better at all 8 origins.\",\"results_keys\":[\"rmse_model_h2\",\"rmse_naive_h2\",\"rel_improvement_rmse_h2\"],\"status\":\"supported\",\"caveat\":\"HLN-DM p=0.13; overlapping targets make origins dependent.\"},\n {\"id\":\"C3\",\"text\":\"MAE: naive 1.69/1.81 pp and AR(1) 1.22/1.02 pp at h=1/h=2.\",\"results_keys\":[\"mae_naive_h1\",\"mae_naive_h2\",\"mae_model_h1\",\"mae_model_h2\"],\"status\":\"supported\",\"caveat\":\"8 observations per horizon.\"},\n {\"id\":\"C4\",\"text\":\"First releases of the h=1 target quarters were later revised by 0.56 pp on average in absolute value (current vintage 2026-10-30), a sizable fraction of forecast RMSE.\",\"results_keys\":[\"mean_abs_revision_h1_targets\"],\"status\":\"supported\",\"caveat\":\"Recent quarters (2025Q4) have had fewer revision rounds than older ones.\"},\n {\"id\":\"C5\",\"text\":\"A simple AR model significantly beats the naive forecast in real time.\",\"results_keys\":[\"rel_improvement_rmse_h1\",\"rel_improvement_rmse_h2\"],\"status\":\"unsupported\",\"caveat\":\"Point estimates favour the model but the 8-origin sample does not yield statistical significance.\"}\n]\nEOF\n~/wp29/venv/bin/python -c \"import json;json.load(open('out/claims.json'))\"; 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The h=2 forecast iterates the model: ŷ_{T+2} = c + φ ŷ_{T+1}. Estimates hardly changed across origins (c ≈ 1.79–1.84, φ ≈ 0.32–0.33), so the model is close to \"shrink about two-thirds of the way toward a mean of roughly 2.7%\".\n- **Metrics:** RMSE and MAE over the 8 origins for each horizon, plus 1 − RMSE_model/RMSE_naive. 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That is about 28% of the naive h=1 RMSE and about 38% of the AR h=1 RMSE. Measured against later-revised data, the errors would therefore look noticeably different.\n\n## Uncertainty\nWith only 8 origins, these estimates are very imprecise. Results are in `out/uncertainty.json`.\n- I ran a Diebold–Mariano test on squared-error differentials, with the Harvey–Leybourne–Newbold small-sample correction and t(7) reference. It gives a statistic of 1.47 (p = 0.19) at h=1 and 1.71 (p = 0.13) at h=2. Neither horizon shows a statistically significant gain at conventional levels. Even this asymptotic-style test is unreliable at T = 8.\n- The gains are concentrated in a few origins. Most of the advantage comes from 2025-04-30, where the naive forecast carried forward the import-driven −0.3% for 2025Q1, and 2025-12-31, where it carried forward 4.3% for 2025Q3. Dropping either origin would substantially reduce the measured improvement.\n- The h=2 sign result (model better at 8 of 8 origins) is the most robust single finding. Under a null of equal accuracy, a sign test gives p = 2 × 0.5^8 ≈ 0.008. However, overlapping h=2 targets make the origins serially dependent, so this p-value is optimistic.\n\n## Limitations and open issues\n- The evaluation sample is tiny (8 origins in 2024–2025) and RMSE is dominated by 1–2 large surprises, so the results do not generalise reliably.\n- Only one model was tried, and its exclusion rules (start in 1985, drop pandemic pairs) are judgement calls. They were fixed in advance, but no alternative specifications were tested, so there was no specification search. A full-sample AR would be heavily affected by the 2020 outliers.\n- Actuals are first releases (advance estimates). Accuracy against the current vintage would differ, because the mean absolute revision is 0.56 pp.\n- The irregular 5-month gap before the last origin (the shutdown) means \"h=1\" at that origin is effectively a backcast of a quarter that had already ended. That holds for every origin in this design, since h=1 targets the quarter in progress or just finished.\n- The model uses only the GDP series itself: no monthly indicators and no nowcasting information. 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Estimates hardly changed across origins (c ≈ 1.79–1.84, φ ≈ 0.32–0.33), so the model is close to \"shrink about two-thirds of the way toward a mean of roughly 2.7%\".\n- **Metrics:** RMSE and MAE over the 8 origins for each horizon, plus 1 − RMSE_model/RMSE_naive. The revision statistic is the mean |current − first release| over the 8 h=1 target quarters (2024Q1 … 2025Q4).\n- Everything is deterministic (no randomness). `out/analysis.py` regenerates `results.json`, `forecasts.csv` and `uncertainty.json`.\n\n## Results\nErrors are in percentage points of annualised growth, scored against first releases. n = 8 per horizon.\n\n| | RMSE h=1 | MAE h=1 | RMSE h=2 | MAE h=2 |\n|---|---|---|---|---|\n| Naive | 2.010 | 1.688 | 2.265 | 1.813 |\n| AR(1) | 1.481 | 1.223 | 1.399 | 1.021 |\n\n- The AR(1) model's RMSE is lower than naive by 26.3% at h=1 and by 38.2% at h=2.\n- The AR(1) model beat the naive forecast (lower squared error) at 5 of 8 origins for h=1 and at all 8 origins for h=2.\n- Mean absolute revision between first release and the 2026-10-30 vintage, over the h=1 targets: **0.56 pp**. Individual revisions range from 0.1 to 1.2 pp; the largest is 2025Q4 (first release 1.4, current 0.2). 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A simple time-series model did better than the naive forecast at both horizons, but with only 8 origins the gain is not statistically significant.\n\n**Model:** an AR(1) with an intercept, fitted by ordinary least squares (`ar1_1985_excovid`). It is re-fitted at each origin using only that origin's vintage file, on data from 1985Q1 to the last published quarter. I dropped the 2020Q1–2021Q1 pandemic outliers (−28% and +35% annualised), a rule I fixed before looking at any results. The two-quarter forecast is built by feeding the one-quarter forecast back into the model. The fitted coefficients barely changed across origins, so the model mostly pulls the last value toward a long-run mean of about 2.7%.\n\n**Results**, in percentage points of annualised growth, scored against first releases (8 forecasts per horizon):\n\n| | RMSE h=1 | MAE h=1 | RMSE h=2 | MAE h=2 |\n|---|---|---|---|---|\n| Naive | 2.01 | 1.69 | 2.27 | 1.81 |\n| AR(1) | 1.48 | 1.22 | 1.40 | 1.02 |\n\n- **Improvement in RMSE over naive:** 26.3% one quarter ahead and 38.2% two quarters ahead.\n- **Where the model won:** it beat naive at 5 of 8 origins one quarter ahead and at all 8 two quarters ahead.\n- **Revisions:** the first releases of the one-quarter-ahead target quarters were later revised by 0.56 points on average, ranging from 0.1 to 1.2. Scored against today's revised data, the errors would look noticeably different.\n- **Significance:** a Diebold–Mariano test with a small-sample correction gives p = 0.19 one quarter ahead and p = 0.13 two quarters ahead. 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