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Course Outline

Challenges encountered by forecasters

  • Planning for customer demand
  • Addressing investor uncertainty
  • Strategic economic planning
  • Managing seasonal fluctuations in demand and utilization
  • Understanding the roles of risk and uncertainty

Time Series Forecasting

  • Seasonal adjustment techniques
  • Moving average methods
  • Exponential smoothing
  • Extrapolation strategies
  • Linear prediction models
  • Trend estimation
  • Assessing stationarity and ARIMA modelling

Econometric Methods (Causal Approaches)

  • Regression analysis
  • Multiple linear regression
  • Multiple non-linear regression
  • Validation of regression models
  • Generating forecasts from regression outputs

Judgemental Methods

  • Conducting surveys
  • Applying the Delphi method
  • Scenario building
  • Technology forecasting
  • Forecasting by analogy

Simulation and Alternative Methods

  • Simulation techniques
  • Prediction markets
  • Probabilistic forecasting and Ensemble forecasting

Requirements

This course is a component of the Data Scientist skill set, falling under the domain of Analytical Techniques and Methods.

 14 Hours

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