fable.intermittent: benchmarking probabilistic forecasting methods for intermittent time series

arXiv:2609.28607v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Intermittent time series are common in spare-parts demand and retail sales. Since the cost of forecast errors is typically asymmetric, decisions such as inventory control require the full predictive distribution rather than a point forecast. Many probabilistic forecasting methods have been proposed; their implementations, however, are scattered across different software frameworks, making it difficult to compare them systematically. We introduce fable.intermittent, an R package that implements several probabilistic forecasting methods for intermittent series within the fable framework. The packa