%0 Journal Article %T Oil Price Forecasting Based on EMD and BP_AdaBoost Neural Network %A Huifang Qu %A Guoqiang Tang %A Qiying Lao %J Open Journal of Statistics %P 660-669 %@ 2161-7198 %D 2018 %I Scientific Research Publishing %R 10.4236/ojs.2018.84043 %X Empirical mode decomposition (EMD) and BP_AdaBoost neural network are used in this paper to model the oil price. Based on the benefits of these two methods, we predict the oil price by using them. To a certain extent, it effectively improves the accuracy of short-term price forecasting. Forecast results of this model are compared with the results of the ARIMA model, BP neural network and EMD-BP combined model. The experimental result shows that the root mean square error (RMSE), mean absolute error (MAE), mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) and Theil inequality (U) of EMD and BP_AdaBoost model are lower than other models, and the combined model has better prediction accuracy. %K Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) %K BP_AdaBoost Model %K Oil Price %U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=86450