In Chapter 8 simple regression and correlation were introduced and discussed. In simple regression the basic proposition is that an independent variable can be used to predict the value of some dependent variable (the ...

The key variables in international trade policy are imports and exports elasticities with respect to income and prices. Thus their estimation has drawn~particular attention in the post war period. Most of the studies ...

In the preceding three chapters, several major classes of time-series forecasting methods were examined---exponential smoothing, decomposition, autoregressive/moving average, and filters. Various models within each ...