Ralph Snyder

   

Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics 

PO Box 11E 

Monash University 

Victoria 3800 

Australia 

Phone: (+613) 9905 2366

Email: ralph.snyder@buseco.monash.edu.au

Teaching

ETC2450 Applied Forecasting for Business and Economics

ETC2440 Mathematics for Business and Economics

ETC2470 Applied Business Modelling

ETC4480 Optimisation for Managers

Research

Business forecasting encompassing exponential smoothing and state space approaches.

Inventory control and business modelling.

Publications

 

 

Downloads

Phicast

Forecasting add-in for Microsoft Excel

 

Time Series Methods

  • exponential smoothing with trends and seasonal
  • ARMA/ARIMA
  • classical decomposition of time series

Phicast forecasting software (student version)

 

MViewer

View graphs of the time series from the M1 and M3 forecasting competition datasets.


Smooth a series using the exponential smoothing

 

Installation Instructions

 

Download

 

Interesting Links for Forecasters

Monash Business and Economics Forecasting Unit

Wharton School's principles of forecasting site

Rob Hyndman's forecasting site