By Dr.  Bahman Rostami-Tabar  Cardiff University- UK     

Coordinator: Dr. Dana Khdr Sabir  Charmo University- Iraq    

Date: 1st, 2nd and 3rd of October, 2018

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                                                Registeration is closed on Thursday 20 September 2018 at 02:30 (UK time).

Democratising forecasting workshop, October 2018, Iraq

The 3rd demcoratising forecasting workshop will take place in Charmo University in October 2018. Democratizing forecasting is a part of Forecasting4Change intiaitive lead by   Bahman Rostami-Tabar. The aim is to share knowledge on forecasting and influence relevant practices prioritising the need of population and the society.

Prerequisites

• • Basic knowledge in statistics;

  • No knowledge of forecasting is assumed.

  • No prior knowledge of R is assumed.

 Participants must bring their own laptop with a recent version of R and RStudio installed, along with the following packages and their dependencies:

• • Download and install R: click here

  • Download and install RStudio: click here

 Program

 Webinar,

• • 21 September 2018

  • Time: 02:30- 03:30 (UK Time)

 Day 1: 01 October 2018

• • R and RStudio Essentials

  • Reports with RMarkdown

  • Data preparation

  • Data manipulation

  • Data visualization

 Day 2: 02 October 2018

• • Forecasting and decision making

  • Time series patterns

  • Forecaster’s toolbox: time series graphics, simple forecasting methods, residual diagnostics, accuracy measurement

  • Exponential smoothing models

 Day 3: 03 October 2018

• • ARIMA models

  • Regression

  • Model selection

 Schedule

• • Start: 09:30 a.m.

  • End: 04:30 p.m.

 Refreshment breaks

• • " Morning: 11:15 - 11:30

  • " Afternoon: 03:30 - 03:45 p.m.

  • Lunch: 01:00 p.m. - 02:00 p.m.