Time Series Modelling with STAMP

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Subotnik Financial Services Centre, Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College/CUNY
Information and Technology Building, 151 E. 25th Street. New York, NY 10010, U.S.A.


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About STAMP

Timberlake Consultants Ltd, the distributor and publisher of several of the OxMetrics software packages, would like to invite you to attend a one-day course, in Central London. This one-day course will discuss the ideas behind Structural Time Series Modelling and show how the methodology can be implemented using the STAMP package.

The course - Several major advances in time series, forecasting and software engineering have occurred in the past few years. These advances provide a major breakthrough in the modelling of time series using easy-to-use object-oriented Windows based software. The course aims to provide participants with background on Structural Time Series Models and the Kalman filter and demonstrate, using real-life business and industrial data, how to interpret and report the results using the STAMP software package. You do not need to be a STAMP user. Developers of other software packages, e.g. EViews, ForecastPro, have followed his work extensively when implementing this type of models. Participants are invited to bring their own data.

Who should attend? Structural time series models find application in many subjects, including, economics, finance, sociology, management science, biology, geography, meteorology and engineering. The course is, therefore, suitable for anyone who works with time series data in government or industry or teaches this topic at Universities. A basic knowledge of time series analysis is assumed. Familiarity with the software is not required but advisable. If you want to get some familiarity with the software prior to the course, please request a demo copy.

The Principal Lecturer - Professor Andrew C. Harvey is professor of Econometrics at the University of Cambridge, having previously been Professor at the LSE. He is widely published and is author of well-known textbooks ‘Time Series Models’ and ‘Econometric Analysis of Time Series’. He has also published a monograph on structural time series models entitled ‘Forecasting, Structural Time Series Models and the Kalman filter’. He is associate editor of the J Economic Dynamics and Control and J Time Series Analysis.

Cost - The course fees are

1st Participant
2nd Participant+

The cost includes course materials, lunch, refreshments and the use of computers. The number of delegates is restricted. Please register early to guarantee your place. Further instructions will be sent with the joining instructions. If you need assistance in locating hotel accommodation in the area, request the help of our Training Department.


Agenda
(subject to minor changes)

9.00 Coffee and Registration

9.30 Introductory lecture on structural time series models: univariate time series; trends, and cycles; model selection; seasonality and seasonal adjustment; forecasting.

10.30 Coffee

10.45 Hands-on session with STAMP

13.00 Lunch

14.00 Lecture on modelling the relationship between variables: assessing the impact of changes in policy using intervention analysis; multivariate models; common factors and co-integration. Modelling volatility in financial series.

15.15 Tea

15.30 Hands-on session with STAMP

17.30 Close


Terms and Conditions

Registration closes 5 calendar days prior to the start of the course.

Cancellations:

  • full fee returned for cancellations made over 28 calendar days prior to start of the course
  • half-fee returned for cancellations made 14 calendar days prior to he start of the course
  • no fee returned for cancellations made less than 14 calendar days prior to the start of the course.

    Payment of course fees required prior to the course start date