Week 4: The forecaster’s toolbox

What you will learn this week

  • Four benchmark forecasting methods that we will use for comparison
  • Fitted values, residuals
  • Forecasting with transformations

Exercises (on your own or in tutorial)

Complete Exercise 2-3, 5, 7, 9-10 from Section 3.7 of the book

Exercise solutions

Pre-seminar activities

Read Chapter 5 of the textbook and watch all embedded videos

Assignments

  • GA1 is due on Monday 24 March.
  • IA2 is due on Monday 07 April.