Data analysis - unemployment I

In the video, we fit a seasonal ARIMA model to the log of the monthly AirPassengers data set. You will now start to fit a seasonal ARIMA model to the monthly US unemployment data, unemp, from the astsa package.

The first thing to do is to plot the data, notice the trend and the seasonal persistence. Then look at the detrended data and remove the seasonal persistence. After that, the fully differenced data should look stationary.

The astsa package has been pre-loaded for you.

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ARIMA Models in R

Exercise instructions

Plot the monthly US unemployment (unemp) time series from astsa. Note trend and seasonality.
Detrend and plot the data. Save this as d_unemp. Notice the seasonal persistence.
Seasonally difference the detrended series and save this as dd_unemp. Plot this new data and notice that it looks stationary now.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Plot unemp 


# Difference your data and plot it
d_unemp <- 


# Seasonally difference d_unemp and plot it
dd_unemp <- diff(___, lag = 12)

Edit and Run Code

This exercise is part of the course

ARIMA Models in R

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You will investigate the nature of time series data and learn the basics of ARMA models that can explain the behavior of such data. You will learn the basic R commands needed to help set up raw time series data to a form that can be analyzed using ARMA models.

Exercise 1: First things first Exercise 2: Data play Exercise 3: Elements of time series Exercise 4: Stationarity and nonstationarity Exercise 5: Differencing Exercise 6: Detrending data Exercise 7: Dealing with trend and heteroscedasticity Exercise 8: Stationary time series: ARMA Exercise 9: Simulating ARMA models

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Exercise 1: AR and MA models Exercise 2: Fitting an AR(1) model Exercise 3: Fitting an AR(2) model Exercise 4: Fitting an MA(1) model Exercise 5: AR and MA together Exercise 6: Fitting an ARMA model Exercise 7: Identify an ARMA model Exercise 8: Model choice and residual analysis Exercise 9: Model choice - I Exercise 10: Model choice - II Exercise 11: Residual analysis - I Exercise 12: Residual analysis - II Exercise 13: ARMA get in

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Exercise 1: ARIMA - integrated ARMA Exercise 2: ARIMA - plug and play Exercise 3: Simulated ARIMA Exercise 4: Global warming Exercise 5: ARIMA diagnostics Exercise 6: Diagnostics - simulated overfitting Exercise 7: Diagnostics - global temperatures Exercise 8: Forecasting ARIMA Exercise 9: Forecasting simulated ARIMA Exercise 10: Forecasting global temperatures

You will learn how to fit and forecast seasonal time series data using seasonal ARIMA models. This is accomplished using what you learned in the previous chapters and by learning how to extend the R time series commands available in the stats and astsa packages.

Exercise 1: Pure seasonal models Exercise 2: P/ACF of pure seasonal models Exercise 3: Fit a pure seasonal model Exercise 4: Mixed seasonal models Exercise 5: Fit a mixed seasonal model Exercise 6: Data analysis - unemployment I

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