ECON 144Economic Forecasting
Economics · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Survey of theory and application of time-series methods to forecasting in economics, business, and government. Topics include modeling and forecasting trend, seasonality, and cycles. Discussion of stochastic trends, volatility measure, and evaluation of forecasting techniques. Hands-on approach to real-world data analysis methods widely used by economists and other professionals.
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Preparation: familiarity with data analysis software (e.g., R, Excel, MATLAB, Stata) and/or programming experience. Enforced requisites: courses 101, 103, 103L, 104, 104L.
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ECON 144
- ECON 101Microeconomic Theory
- ECON 103Introduction to Econometrics
- ECON 41Probability and Statistics for Economists
- MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Series
- MATH 170EIntroduction to Probability and Statistics 1: Probability
- STATS 100BIntroduction to Mathematical Statistics
- ECON 103LEconometrics Laboratory
- STATS 100AIntroduction to Probability
- MATH 170SIntroduction to Probability and Statistics 2: Statistics
- ECON 104Data Science for Economists
- ECON 104LData Science for Economists Laboratory
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