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Time Series Modelling and Forecasting using Stata

Time Series data is today available for a wide range of several phenomena in Business, Finance, Economics, Public Health, the Political and Social Sciences. The aim of TStat Training’s Times Series Modelling and Forecasting Course is therefore, to provide researchers and professionals with the standard tool kit required for the analysis of time series data in Stata. As such the program has been developed to offer an overview of the most commonly used methods for analysing, modelling and forecasting the dynamic behaviour of time series data, offering practical examples of empirical modelling using real-world data. The course begins with an introduction to Stata’s basic time series commands, before moving onto the analysis of time series features and to univariate time series models. Sessions 3 and 4 instead focus on the estimation of both multivariate time series models with stationary and nonstationary data and univariate models of volatility.

 

In common with TStat’s training philosophy, throughout the course theory and methods are illustrated in an intuitive way and are complemented by practical exercises undertaken in Stata, during which the course tutor discusses and highlights potential pitfalls and the advantages of individual techniques. Particular attention is also given to both the interpretation and presentation of empirical results. In this manner, the course leader is able to bridge the “often difficult” gap between theory and practice of time series modelling and forecasting.

 

Upon completion, it is expected that participants are able to autonomously implement the statistical methods discussed during the course to their own data, customizing when necessary, the Stata do-file routines specifically developed for the course.

Researchers and professionals working in financial institutions, policy institutions, research departments of utilities, governments, corporations, Ph.D and Master students in biostatistics, economics, finance, engineering, psychology, social and political sciences needing to implement time series data analysis methods.

Participants are required to have a good working knowledge of:

Linear regression model definition and assumptions.
Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) estimation. Properties of OLS.
Inference in the linear regression model: confidence intervals, t-test, F-test.
Violation of the linear regression model assumptions: heteroscedasticity, serial correlation, functional form misspecification, non-Normality. Consequences of violations and remedies.
Diagnostic analysis of regression: tests for heteroscedasticity, test for serial correlation, Normality test, Ramsey’s RESET.
Regression with time series data. Concepts of lagged variable and differenced variable.
Dynamic models.

 

Those needing to refresh these concepts are referred to:

Hill, R.C., Griffiths, W.E., and G.C. Lim (2018). Principles of Econometrics, 5th Edition. Wiley.
Stock, J.H., and Watson, M.W. (2019). Introduction to Econometrics, 4th edition, Pearson.
Wooldridge, J.M. (2020). Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach, 7th Edition, Cengage Learning.

SESSION I: WORKING WITH TIME SERIES IN STATA

A quick introduction to Stata for time series data:

Creating and formatting date variables using date and time functions and time-series declaration
Using Stata time-series operators to create lags, leads, differences, seasonal differences, percentage changes

Graphical analysis of time series:

Creating and examining line plots to understand the behaviour of series over time
Creating and examining correlograms to assess dependence in time series
Creating and examining histograms to evaluate Normality

Descriptive statistics analysis of time series:

Unit root test: Augmented Dickey Fuller Test and DFGLS test
White Noise test
Normality test

 

SESSION II: UNIVARIATE TIME SERIES MODELS

Univariate Time Series Models: theoretical elements

Autoregressive model (AR)
Moving Average model (MA)
Autoregressive Moving Average Model (ARMA)
Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average Model (ARIMA)
Seasonal ARIMA models (SARIMA)

ARIMA modelling in practice: using the Box-Jenkins approach to model real-world economic time series

Examining the sample autocorrelation function and the sample partial autocorrelation function
Estimation of ARIMA models
Model diagnostic analysis and model selection using information criteria

Forecasting with ARIMA models
An introduction to Markov-Switching Models

Markov-switching dynamic regression
Markov-switching autoregression

 

SESSION III: MULTIVARIATE TIME SERIES MODELS

Multivariate Time Series Models – Vector Autoregression (VAR): theoretical elements
VAR modelling in practice:

Lag order selection
Estimation
Diagnostic checking: autocorrelation, stationarity and normality

Granger causality and impulse response function analysis
Forecasting with VAR models
Nonstationary time series: spurious regressions versus cointegration

Concepts of long-run equilibrium relationships and short-run relationships
Vector Error Correction Model (VECM)
Testing for cointegration in regressions: a residuals-based test
Engle and Granger two-step method
Testing for cointegration and estimating cointegrating relationships with the Johansen’s approach

 

SESSION IV: MODELLING AND FORECASTING VOLATILITY IN TIME SERIES MODELS

Time-varying volatility:

Visual inspection of time-varying volatility (i.e. volatility clustering) and leptokurtosis with line plots and histograms
ARCH test

Modelling volatility of financial time series:

ARCH model: estimation and diagnostic checking
Extension to the ARCH model: GARCH model, estimation and diagnostic checking
ARCH-in-Mean model
Modelling the asymmetric impact of news on volatility: Asymmetric GARCH models (EGARCH, GJR-GARCH, TGARCH, APARCH)
Model selection

Forecasting volatility with GARCH models

 

SUGGESTED READING (PRE – AND POST-COURSE)

Becketti, S. (2020). Introduction to Time Series Using Stata. Stata Press Publication.
Boffelli, S. and Urga G. (2016). Financial Econometrics Using Stata. Stata Press Publication.

We are currently putting the finishing touches to our 2024 training calendar. We therefore ask that you re-visit our website periodically or contact us at formazione@tstat.it should the dates for the course which you are interested in following not yet be published. You will then be contacted via email as soon as the dates are available.

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The course has been developed to offer an overview of the most commonly used methods for analysing, modelling and forecasting the dynamic behaviour of time series data, offering practical examples of empirical modelling using real-world data.