TY  - BOOK
AU  - Silvia,John
AU  - Iqbal,Azhar
AU  - Swankoski,Kaylyan
AU  - Watt,Sarah
AU  - Bullard,Sam
TI  - Economic and business forecasting: analyzing and interpreting econometric results 
T2  - Wiley & SAS business series
SN  - 9781118497098 (cloth)
U1  - 330.015195 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New Jersey
PB  - John Wiley
KW  - Economic forecasting
KW  - Business forecasting
KW  - Decision making
KW  - Econometrics
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Creating harmony out of noisy data effective decision making: characterize the data--
2. First, understand the data--
3. Financial ratios--
4. Characterizing a time series--
5. Character4izing a relationship between time series--
6. Characterizing a time series using SAS software--
7. Testing for a unit root and structural break using SAS software--
8. Characterizing a relationship using SAS--
9. The 10 commandments of applied time series forecasting for business and economics--
10. A single-equation approach to model-based forecasting--
11. A multiple-equations approach to model-based forecasting--
12. A multiple-equation approach to long-term forecasting--
13. The risks of model-based forecasting modeling, assessing, and remodeling--
14. Putting the analysis to work in the twenty-first-century economy--
Appendix--
About the authors--
Index
N2  - Economic and Business Forecasting offers a comprehensive and practical approach to quantifying and accurate forecasting of key variables. Using simple econometric techniques, author John E. Silvia focuses on a select set of major economic and financial variables, revealing how to optimally use statistical software as a template
ER  -