ECON 144

Economic Forecasting

Economics · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

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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.

P/NP or letter grading.

Requisites

Official UCLA wording
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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Requires

Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.

ECON 144

ECON 101Microeconomic Theory
- ECON 11Microeconomic Theory
  - ECON 1Principles of Economics
  - MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculusanother path to it
  - MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Seriesanother path to it

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