Week 9: ARIMA models

What you will learn this week

  • Seasonal ARIMA models
  • Computing forecasts for ARIMA models
  • ARIMA vs ETS models

Pre-seminar activities

Read Sections 9.8-9.10 of the textbook and watch all embedded videos

Tutorial exercises

NoteTutorial Learning Objectives
  1. Develop and evaluate seasonal ARIMA models.
    • Able to transform/difference seasonal series, fit and diagnose competing ARIMA models, and produce forecasts (including comparing against ETS and STL-adjusted approaches).
  2. Compute ARIMA-based forecasts manually.
    • Able to use a specified ARIMA model equation and estimated parameters to hand-calculate multi-step forecasts, then fit the same model in R and explain differences between manual and software forecasts.

Assignments

  • GA3 is due on Tuesday 05 May.
  • IA4 is due on Friday 15 May.

Weekly quiz