ECON 313 - Forecasting for Business and Economics

Institution:

Lafayette College

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Description:

This course teaches the basic techniques used by business, academic, and government economists to forecast a wide variety of economic variables. The emphasis is on statistical technique. Students learn how to decompose time series data into their key components: seasonal, cyclical, trend, and white noise. Autoregressive and moving average techniques as well as econometric modeling are used to model and forecast economic and business data. [W] Prerequisite: Econ 213 or Econ 365. Gamber

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.lafayette.edu/

Phone Number:

(610) 330-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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