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Published inMay 2019
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PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781788629157
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Rami Krispin
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Rami Krispin

Rami Krispin is a data scientist at a major Silicon Valley company, where he focuses on time series analysis and forecasting. In his free time, he also develops open source tools and is the author of several R packages, including the TSstudio package for time series analysis and forecasting applications. Rami holds an MA in Applied Economics and an MS in actuarial mathematics from the University of MichiganAnn Arbor.
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This book was written under the assumption that its readers have the following knowledge and skills:

  • Basic knowledge of statistics or econometrics, which includes topics such as regression modeling, hypothesis testing, normal distribution, and so on
  • Experience with R, or another programming language

You will need to have R installed (https://cran.r-project.org/) and it is recommended to install the RStudio IDE (https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/).

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There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "We will use the Sys.Date and Sys.time functions to pull date and time objects respectively."

A block of code is set as follows:

library(TSstudio)

data(USgas)

The output of the R code is prefixed by the ## sign:

ts_info(USgas)
##  The USgas series is a ts object with 1 variable and 227 observations
## Frequency: 12
## Start time: 2000 1
## End time: 2018 11

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Rami Krispin

Rami Krispin is a data scientist at a major Silicon Valley company, where he focuses on time series analysis and forecasting. In his free time, he also develops open source tools and is the author of several R packages, including the TSstudio package for time series analysis and forecasting applications. Rami holds an MA in Applied Economics and an MS in actuarial mathematics from the University of MichiganAnn Arbor.
Read more about Rami Krispin