ECO 4301 - Business and Economic Forecasting

Credits: 3 Class: 3 Lab: 0
Prerequisite(s): Completion of the common core plus 18 additional hours, ECO 2301 and a grade of C or better in STAT 3309.
Combines economic theory, quantitative methods and forecasting techniques to understand, analyze and forecast trends and fluctuations in business and economic activities. Emphasis on forecasting techniques such as smoothing methods, decomposition analysis, regression analysis, Box-Jenkins ARIMA methods and other advanced time-series techniques. Actual data and appropriate computer software will be used to provide hands-on experience to learn techniques and apply them for business and economic decision-making.