Linear Time Series Modeling


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Dataset description: Airline Passengers data


Learning Objectives

After this lesson, students will be able to:

  • Define forecasting.
  • Define and identify trend and seasonality in time series data.
  • Define and calculate autocorrelation manually.
  • Generate and interpret a seasonal decomposition plot.
  • Generate and interpret an autocorrelation plot.
  • Generate and interpret a partial autocorrelation plot.
  • Properly fit, generate predictions from, and evaluate a linear time series model.

Lesson Outline

Total Time: 120 mins


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