Introductory Time Series with R
by Paul S.P. Cowpertwait and Andrew V. Metcalfe
Springer. ISBN: 978-0-387-88697-8

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Published June 2009
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About the Book 	Contents
Answers to Selected Exercises 	Data Sets
R Scripts 	Known Errata
About the book

Yearly global mean temperature and ocean levels, daily share prices, and the signals transmitted back to Earth by the Voyager space craft are all examples of sequential observations over time known as time series. This book gives you a step-by-step introduction to analysing time series using the open source software R, which can be downloaded free of charge from: http://www.r-project.org.

Each time series model is motivated with practical applications, and is defined in mathematical notation. Once the model has been introduced it is used to generate synthetic data, using R code, and these generated data are then used to estimate its parameters. This sequence enhances understanding of both the model and the R function used to fit the model to data. Finally, the model is applied to an observed series of data. By using R, the whole procedure can be reproduced by the reader.

The book is written for undergraduate students of mathematics, economics, business and finance, geography, engineering and related disciplines, and postgraduate students who may need to analyse time series as part of their taught programme or their research.

Paul Cowpertwait (p.s.cowpertwait@massey.ac.nz) is a senior lecturer in statistics at Massey University with a substantial research record in both the theory and applications of time series and stochastic models. Andrew Metcalfe (andrew.metcalfe@adelaide.edu.au) is an associate professor in the School of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Adelaide, and an author of six statistics textbooks and numerous research papers. Both authors have extensive experience of teaching time series to students at all levels.
Contents

   1. Time Series Data
   2. Correlation
   3. Forecasting Strategies
   4. Basic Stochastic Models
   5. Regression
   6. Stationary Models
   7. Non-stationary Models
   8. Long Memory Processes
   9. Spectral Analysis
  10. System Identification
  11. Multivariate Models
  12. State Space Models

Data Sets

Data listed here are for teaching/research only and can be downloaded free of charge from various sites via the internet. The sources are various, including R, the Climatic Research Unit (University of East Anglia), Rob Hyndman's Time Series library, the Pacific Exchange Rate Service, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and the Australian Bureaux of Statistics. We are grateful to these organisations and people for making their data available. Please let us know if you find your data here without a suitable acknowledgement. The chapter in which the data set first appears is shown first.
Chapter 1: Chocolate, Beer, Electricity
Chapter 1: Exchange rate ($NZ per UK pound)
Chapter 1: Maine unemployment
Chapter 1: US unemployment
Chapter 1: Global temperature data (edited)
Chapter 2: Herald square exhaust emission data
Chapter 2: Wave tank data
Chapter 2: Font reservoir series
Chapter 2: Guess What?
Chapter 2: Varnish
Chapter 3: Building Approvals
Chapter 3: Complaints to a motor company
Chapter 3: Australian wine sales
Chapter 4: Hewlett-Packade closing prices
Chapter 7: Southern temperatures
Chapter 7: Overseas visitors
Chapter 7: Stockmarket series
Chapter 8: LAN series
Chapter 8: Nile Minima
Chapter 8: Bank loan rates
Chapter 9: Electric motor series
Chapter 9: Vibration dose series
Chapter 9: Southern oscillation index
Chapter 9: Pacific Decadal Oscillation index
Chapter 10: Tugboat data
Chapter 11: US exchange rates
Chapter 12: Murray River data
Chapter 12: Morgan Stanley share prices
R Scripts

The longer R scripts that appear in the text are available in the link below.
R Scripts
Known Errata
Errata
Exercises and Selected Answers
Solutions
Last edited July 2009, by Paul Cowpertwait