Compare a time-series forecast with a seasonal baseline
Build a previous-season reference, evaluate it on later observations and distinguish calendar alignment from leakage and missing data.
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Build a previous-season reference, evaluate it on later observations and distinguish calendar alignment from leakage and missing data.
Use chronological splits and fit preprocessing only on past data.
Use TimeSeriesSplit to evaluate time-ordered forecasts without leakage, compute per-horizon errors, and choose a strictly consistent metric that matches the decision cost.