An Introduction to Time Series Analysis and Forecasting: with Applications of SAS and SPSS

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Summary: Vaulable for all people learning econometrics
Review: "Introduction to Time Series Analysis and Forecasting with Applications of SAS and SPSS" is the best textbook in the area of econometrics that I ever read so far. It demonstrates detail programme language of SAS and SPSS for time series analysis and Forecasting which make this book distinguishable from others. I found the explanation of the programme language (right beside the programme) is easy to read and make me understand SAS and SPSS more, especially for the beginner of these programmes. Besides the programme language, the text itself also explains the concepts and the equations of the time series analysis and econometrics in an easy to understand and orgainzed way. This is definitely a good tool book for people learning econometrics.

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Summary: Difficult to understand
Review: Although I have taken courses in multivriate statistics, I had a very difficult time getting through the second chapter in this text. Certainly, there must be something that is easier to understand. The author writes as if he spent his whole life inside the ivory tower and gravitates towards three and four syllable words. I thought that this book would be simple to uderstand because it is targeted to students in the social sciences. I thought wrong!

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Summary: Data and Syntax CD with the book
Review: I think this book is useless unless the author includes a CD of data and syntax as had been done by Gujarati and Green.