“…The classic time series forecasters are based on statistical learning and include the Naive forecasting [4,7,50], the moving average [2][3][4]7,22,32,33], the exponential smoothing, the ARMA [14,28,51], and the ARIMA [6,[14][15][16][17][18]24,26,[28][29][30][50][51][52] processes. The modern time series forecasters include machine learning and deep learning algorithms such as the support vector regression [6,10,11], k-nearest neighbor [10,31], artificial neural network [1,7,33], recurrent neural network (RNN) [6,9,10,12], and LSTM [6,9,10,29,30,53] algorithms. Recently, a comparison between the statistical learning and modern approaches in either simulated or real datasets with or without missing data has been reported in the literature [1,…”