Forecasting attendance in the Korean professional baseball league using GARCH models

일반화 자기회귀 조건부 이분산 모형을 이용한 한국프로야구 관중수의 예측

  • 이장택 (단국대학교 정보통계학과) ;
  • 방소영 (단국대학교 정보통계학과)
  • Received : 2010.08.02
  • Accepted : 2010.10.13
  • Published : 2010.11.30

Abstract

In Korean professional baseball, attendance is the largest source of revenue for development of professional baseball and the highest concern of professional baseball teams. So, if there is demand forecasting model, it will be helpful for pennant chasers to work out the strategies for drawing attendance. For this reason, this research intends to suggest the model which estimates Korean professional baseball's attendance and uses all usable variables which have an effect on attendance in limited circumstances. We supposed that dependent variable is attendance as well as several independent variables and error term are homoscedastic variance. And then, we compared the models which assume conditional heteroscedastic variance like GARCH and EGARCH with GARCH-t models which use the assumption that error term's distribution follows student-t distribution. In result of that, we could confirm that the models which were made by using GARCH(1,1)-t made estimates the most accurately among the several models considered.

한국프로야구에서 관중수는 프로야구 발전을 위한 가장 큰 수입원이며 프로야구팀의 관심사이므로 수요예측 모형이 있다면 프로야구구단들은 관중유치 전략을 세우는데 도움이 될 것이다. 이러한 이유로 본 연구에서는 한국프로야구 관중수를 예측하는 모형을 제안하고자 하며 제한된 여건 속에서 관중수에 영향을 미치는 이용 가능한 대부분의 변수들을 고려하였다. 종속변수는 로그관중수로 두고 다양한 독립변수와 오차항의 분산을 등분산, 조건부 이분산을 가정한 여러 가지 일반화 자기회귀 모형, 오차항의 분포가 t분포를 따른다는 가정을 이용한 일반화 자기회귀 조건부 이분산 모형들을 서로 비교하였는데, 그 결과 고려된 모형 중에서는 t분포를 가정한 일반화 자기회귀 조건부 이분산 모형이 가장 예측력이 뛰어났다.

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