摘要 |
A predicting variable identifying device includes a candidate profile creating portion sequentially rotates correspondence relationships between intervals in a reference profile and ranks, to create respective candidate profiles, for each different amount of rotation, a group classifying portion, based on a setting from the outside, performs classification of one interval or a plurality of continuous intervals into individual control groups, a rank match checking portion, checks, for each candidate profile B, whether or not the ranks match across the intervals that belong to identical control groups, and a predicting variable identifying portion identifies, as predicting variables, those variables that indicate energy indicator values in the intervals going back by retrospection times, from a point in time for which a prediction is to be made, for those candidate profiles wherein the ranks have been confirmed to be matching for all of the control groups. |