Time-Series Forecasting: Deep Learning vs Statistics — Who Wins?

A comprehensive guide on the ultimate dilemma

Nikos Kafritsas
Towards Data Science
14 min readApr 5, 2023

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In recent years, Deep Learning has made remarkable progress in the field of NLP.

Time series, also sequential in nature, raise the question: what happens if we bring the full power of pretrained transformers to time-series forecasting?

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