Math 461 Time Series Analysis

Instructor: Likai Chen (likai.chen[at]wustl.edu)

Lectures: 10:00 a.m - 10:50 a.m on M/W/F

Location: Jubel room 120

Office hour: 11:00 a.m-12:00 p.m Monday room 107 Cupples I

TA hour: 4:30 p.m- 5:30 p.m. Tuesday room 8 (basement) Cupples I

Schedule

Topics covered

Generalities of time series and exploratory data analysis: data types, trend, seasonality, nonstationarity and stationarity; Time-series in the time domain and autocorrelation; autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) models; model selection methods; forecasting; frequency domain and spectral analysis; State-Space Models and Kalman Filter; Nonlinear time series; multivariate time series. More advanced topics if time allows it .

Prerequisites

Math 493 (Probability) and 494 (Mathematical Statistics); or permission of the instructor. Some programming experience in R is useful but not essential.

Textbook

Time Series Analysis and Its Applications (with R examples).
R.H. Shumway and D.S.Stoffer, 4th Edition, Springer.
Available for free download on Springer Link through our library website.

Exams

There will be one midterm and one comprehensive final. The final is scheduled Dec 19 2022 10:30PM - 12:30PM.

Make-up exams are strongly discouraged. If you are aware of a conflict, please inform the instructor before the exam. Make-up exam will only be given if (1) within 1 week of the standard exam and (2) suitable documentation is provided within 2 days.

Homeworks

There will be about 8 HWs. NO LATE HOMEWORK WILL BE ACCEPTED.

Homework collection via crowdmark: Only PDF and JPEG format are accepted.

You will receive a link in email to submit your homework on crowdmark. After you finish homework, you need to upload your work for each homework question separately. Simply drag and drop your files to the upload areas under the questions or browse to locate them. You can drag pages between questions, and add or delete more pages under each questions. Please DO NOT upload your entire file to all homework questions, but only keep the related pages to each question. If you upload pictures of your homework, please make sure your pictures are sharp enough to be graded. Please ensure the uploaded pages are in order and rotated correctly. After your work is graded, you will receive another link in email to review your score and grading comments.

Grades

Your grade will be based on homework, midterm and final exam.

Midterm 30%
Final 40%
Homework 30%

The threshold for each grade

A B C
90-10080-90 70-80
Only very few top students will get A+.

Software

Open-source software R for statistical computing, and its manual .
Download R from Wustl's software.
Download R Studio from its developer's website.