Dick Stanford's Essays

  Collected Essays of Richard A. Stanford   Richard A. Stanford was Professor of Economics, Emeritus, Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina.  These blog posts constitute publication and enable access to Stanford's essays that are not otherwise published. Brief quotation of matter in any of the essay posts may be made with proper citation. Comments and corrections are welcome at dick.stanford@furman.edu. <Introduction>   <Menu> INTRODUCTION These essays were written mostly after my retirement in 2008 to serve two objectives: first, so that my descendants can have a sense of their ancestor's interests and concerns; and second, to provide an archive of descriptions of the economic aspects and issues affecting the world of the early twenty-first century. The economic world of the early twenty-first century was characterized by scarcity, limited resources, unlimited human demands on those resources, human work necessar...

  Collected Essays of Richard A. Stanford   Richard A. Stanford was Professor of Economics, Emeritus, Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina.  These blog posts constitute publication and enable access to Stanford's essays that are not otherwise published. Brief quotation of matter in any of the essay posts may be made with proper citation. Comments and corrections are welcome at dick.stanford@furman.edu. <Introduction>   <Menu> INTRODUCTION These essays were written mostly after my retirement in 2008 to serve two objectives: first, so that my descendants can have a sense of their ancestor's interests and concerns; and second, to provide an archive of descriptions of the economic aspects and issues affecting the world of the early twenty-first century. The economic world of the early twenty-first century was characterized by scarcity, limited resources, unlimited human demands on those resources, human work necessar...

Time Series Forecasting Tools Richard A. Stanford Professor of Economics, Emeritus Furman University Greenville, SC 29613 Copyright 2024 by Richard A. Stanford All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced, stored, or transmitted by any means without written permission of the author except for brief excerpts used in critical analyses and reviews. Unauthorized reproduction of any part of this work is illegal and is punishable under the copyright laws of the United States of America. CONTENTS NOTE: You may click on the symbol <> at the end of any section to return to the CONTENTS.      1. Forecasting Tools      2. Criteria for Model Selection      3. Time Series Forecasting Rules      4. Moving Average Forecasting Models      5. Econometric Forecasting Techniques      6. Time Series Decomp...