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5 Changepoint Detection algorithms every Data Scientist should know

Essential guide to changepoint detection algorithms for time series analysis

Satyam Kumar
TDS Archive
3 min readMar 7, 2023

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Time-series analytics is one of the topics a data scientist must have exposure to. Time-series analysis comprises the process and mathematical set of tools used for looking into time-series data to learn what happened, when and why it happened, and what is most likely to occur in the future.

Change points are sudden variations in time series data that may represent transitions occurring between states. While working with time-series forecasting use-case, it’s essential to detect the changepoints to identify when the probability distribution of a stochastic process or time series changes.

Possible change points (highlighted) in a sample time-series plot

This article will discuss and implement 4 such changepoint detection techniques and benchmark their performance.

1. Piece-wise Linear Regression:

When a changepoint occurs, the pattern or trend of the time-series data changes. The basic idea of the piece-wise linear regression model is to identify such changes in patterns or trends…

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