MSE and time delay relation I have time series for which I used autocorrelation property and made autoregression model for prediction, with different time delays 0-30. I got diagram which is dependency MSE on time delay 0-30 http://imgur.com/a/7l2je and I don't know how to explain this discontinuity with the first dot for which delay is 0 and MSE is equal 0?
The zero time delay seems wrong there. Suppose you have an autoregressive model. A general formula could be:
$$y_t = \alpha + \sum_{i}\beta_i y_{t-i} + w_t$$
Now, if $i$ is zero then you will have
$$y_t = \alpha +\beta_0 y_t + w_t$$
which is really weird. It looks like you predict values at time $t$ from the values at time $t$. In plain English is like you predict the future values from the real values. In that case the error is zero, since it is not very hard to predict something from the real values. So, I think the offsets should start at $1$.