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EC2100:03

Forecasting 2

Townsville

HECS Band 2

26 hours lectures, 12 hours tutorials. Semester 2.

Quantitative forecasting techniques which are useful in the business and commercial environment. The techniques will range from simple smoothing methods to statistical procedures. Strong emphasis will be given to applications of forecasting techniques. Real data sets from finance, tourism, marketing, management and economics will be used to meet the demands of students from a wide range of disciplines.

Applications are conducted by using statistical package SPSS. SPSS is a windows based software which is reasonably easy to use.

Learning Objectives:

have a good knowledge of forecasting theory and techniques at the intermediate level.

Assessment by assignments (20%); end-of-semester examination (80%).