Statistics 6871: Handouts


Introduction to Splus

Introduction to R

Chapter 1 Problems

Chapter 1 Examples

Bill's explanation of compounding ( what does the difference of the log transformed time series mean? )

Exponential Smoothing Examples SAS

Chapter 2 Examples

Midterm

  • The computer midterm:    midterm2.pdf
  • The computer midterm has three datasets: racife.dat securities.dat airpass.dat
  • There are two handouts related to performing the Classical Decomposition of a Racife, Brazil Air Temperature data. racife.r racife.ssc
  • There are two handouts related to developing an appropriate ARIMA model for the airpass data.  airpass.r airpass.ssc
  • Forecasting examples SAS:  For the construction dataset which include three variables, number of contracts (contracts), interest rate (intrate), and hstarts (housing starts) determine the most important exponential smoothing methods.  constr.sas
  • Decomposition of a time series and Seasonal Adjustment X11 SAS:  For the electricity dataset the electricity production time series is seasonally adjusted using the decomposition method X11.  Run the program electric.sas and comment on the results.  What do each of the plots show?

Chapter 3 Examples