R: Initialize flat growth.

flat_growth_init {prophet} | R Documentation

## Initialize flat growth.

### Description

Provides a strong initialization for flat growth by setting the growth to 0 and calculates the offset parameter that pass the function through the mean of the the y_scaled values.

### Usage

    flat_growth_init(df)

### Arguments

`df` | Data frame with columns ds (date), y_scaled (scaled time series), and t (scaled time).

### Value

A vector (k, m) with the rate (k) and offset (m) of the flat growth function.

[Package prophet version 1.0 Index]