Memorias de investigación
Research Publications in journals:
Multi-Output Conditional Inference Trees Applied to the Electricity Market: Variable Importance Analysis
Year:2019

Research Areas
  • Applications for ingineerings and sciences,
  • Artificial intelligence,
  • Statistics,
  • Multivariate analysis,
  • Non parametric inference

Information
Abstract
Predicting electricity prices and demand is a very important issue for the energy market industry. In order to improve the accuracy of any predictive model, a previous variable importance analysis is highly advised. In this paper, we propose an alternative framework to assess the variable importance in multivariate response scenarios based on the permutation importance technique, applying the Conditional inference trees algorithm and a f-divergence measure. Our solution was tested in simulated examples as well as a real case, where we assessed and ranked the most relevant predictors for price and demand of electricity jointly in the Spanish market. The new method outperforms, in most cases, the outcomes achieved by the recently proposed techniques, Intervention prediction measure (IPM) and Sequential multi-response feature selection (SMuRFS). For the electricity market case, we identified the most relevant predictors among pollutant, renewable, calendar and lagged prices variables for the joint response of demand and price, showing also the effectiveness of the proposed multivariate response method when compared with the univariate response analysis.
International
Si
JCR
Si
Title
Energies
ISBN
****-****
Impact factor JCR
2,702
Impact info
Volume
12
10.3390/en12061097
Journal number
6
From page
1097
To page
1121
Month
SIN MES
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Participants

Research Group, Departaments and Institutes related
  • Creador: Grupo de Investigación: Estadística computacional y Modelado estocástico
  • Departamento: Ingeniería de Organización, Administración de Empresas y Estadística
  • Centro o Instituto I+D+i: Instituto Universitario de Investigación del Automóvil (INSIA)