“…The introduction of the nonparametric time series analysis and forecasting technique of singular spectrum analysis (SSA) is closely associated with the work of Broomhead and King (, ). Since then, SSA has progressed rapidly and transformed itself into a powerful technique that is increasingly exploited for providing solutions to real‐world problems in a variety of different fields; see, for example, Gong, Song, He, Gong, and Ren (), Merte (), Yu, Li, and Zhang (), Mahmoudvand and Rodrigues (), Khan and Poskitt (), Hassani, Ghodsi, Silva, and Heravi (), Hassani, Silva, Antonakakis, Filis, and Gupta (), Hassani, Webster, Silva, and Heravi (), Lai and Guo (), Ghodsi, Silva, and Hassani (), and Silva and Hassani (). Few reasons underlying this augmented usage of SSA can be partly attributed to its nonparametric nature.…”