Chapter 10. Time Series Analysis
In this chapter, we will be covering the following recipes:
- Fitting a trend to data
- Fitting to seasonal variation
- Time series predictions without trends or seasonal variations
Introduction
With time series, we will observe the variation in our data over time. We will also look at forecasting data from these techniques.
The Time Series tools are found in the Stat menu, as shown in the following screenshot. It is worth pointing out that the Time Series Plot option in the Stat menu is the same as the Time Series Plot in the Graph menu. We will not use this option here as it has already been covered in Chapter 2, Tables and Graphs.
In this chapter, we will focus on the tools that help us smooth the data over time or fit trends ...
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