Time Series Analysis in the Social Sciences: The Fundamentals
Youseop Shin
Abstract
This book focuses on fundamental elements of time series analysis that social scientists need to understand to employ time series analysis for their research and practice. Avoiding extraordinary mathematical materials, this book explains univariate time-series analysis step by step from the preliminary visual analysis through the modeling of seasonality, trends, and residuals to the prediction and the evaluation of estimated models. Then, this book explains smoothing, multiple time-series analysis, and interrupted time-series analysis. At the end of each step, this book coherently provides an ... More
Keywords: Univariate time-series analysis, Multiple time-series analysis, Interrupted time-series analysis, Smoothing, Forecasting, Social sciences
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2017 | Print ISBN-13: 9780520293168 |
| Published to California Scholarship Online: September 2017 | DOI:10.1525/california/9780520293168.001.0001 |
