ETC3550/5550 Applied forecasting

Teaching team

Chief Examiner

Lecturer

Head Tutor

Lachlan Macquarie

Email: Lachlan.Macquarie@monash.edu

Tutors

Sam Ferraro

Nuwani Palihawadana

Vincent Su

Weekly schedule

Week Topic Chapter Assignments Quizzes
27 Jul Introduction to forecasting and R 1. Getting started
03 Aug Time series graphics 2. Time series graphics Forecasting Competition Week 2
10 Aug Time series decomposition 3. Time series decomposition Week 3
17 Aug Simple forecasting methods 5. The forecaster’s toolbox Week 4
24 Aug Accuracy evaluation 5. The forecaster’s toolbox Assignment 1 Week 5
31 Aug Exponential smoothing 8. Exponential smoothing Week 6
07 Sep Exponential smoothing 8. Exponential smoothing Week 7
14 Sep ARIMA models 9. ARIMA models Assignment 2 Week 8
21 Sep Mid-semester break
28 Sep ARIMA models 9. ARIMA models Week 9
05 Oct ARIMA models 9. ARIMA models Assignment 3 Week 10
12 Oct Multiple regression and forecasting 7. Time series regression models Week 11
19 Oct Dynamic regression 10. Dynamic regression models Retail Project

R package installation

Here is the code to install the R packages we will be using in this unit.

install.packages(c("tidyverse","fpp3", "GGally"), dependencies = TRUE)