BANA 6630

Time-Series Forecasting

The time series analysis is critical to industries such as finance, marketing, retail, and accounting. This course introduces time-series models with emphasis on their practical applications in business. The goal is to show how dynamic financial and economic data can be modeled and analyzed using proper statistical techniques. The topics include methods for trend and seasonal analysis and adjustment, modeling and forecasting with autoregressive moving average (ARMA) processes, and model identification and diagnostics for time series. Other subjects include volatility and state space models. This course provides hands-on experience by pairing lectures on methodology with lab sessions using R to perform real-world data analyses. If you do not meet the prerequisites you may contact the instructor for permission to register. Note: Can only receive credit for either BANA 6630/DSCI 6230.

Units: 3.0

Hours: 3 to 3