Module MA4341-KP05

Time series analysis (ZeitAnKP05)


Duration

1 Semester

Turnus of offer

irregularly

Credit points

5

Course of studies, specific fields and terms:

  • Master CLS 2023, optional subject, mathematics
  • Bachelor CLS 2023, optional subject, mathematics
  • Minor in Teaching Mathematics, Master of Education 2023, optional subject, mathematics
  • Minor in Teaching Mathematics, Master of Education 2017, optional subject, mathematics
  • Master CLS 2016, optional subject, mathematics
  • Bachelor CLS 2016, optional subject, mathematics

Classes and lectures:

  • Time series analysis (exercise, 1 SWS)
  • Time series analysis (lecture, 2 SWS)

Workload:

  • 45 hours in-classroom work
  • 85 hours private studies and exercises
  • 20 hours exam preparation

Contents of teaching:

  • Simple discriptive and explorative methods: smoothing, differentiating, autocorrelation, cross correlation
  • Linear time series models: MA-processes, AR-processes, ARIMA-processes
  • Time series and models with long-range dependencies
  • Time series in the frequency domain: autocorrelation function, spectral density and its estimation
  • nonlinear methods by examples
  • analysis and modelling of data from life sciences (software: R, Mathematica, SPSS)

Qualification-goals/Competencies:

  • Students have basic knowledge of concepts and ideas of time series analysis
  • They master simple linear methods of time series analysis
  • They have competencies in analysis and modelling of real-world time series

Grading through:

  • Oral examination

Literature:

  • R. Schlittgen, B.Streitberg : Zeitreihenanalyse Oldenburg-Verlag, München, Wien 1994
  • P.J. Brockwell, R.A. Davis : Time Series: Theory and Methods Springer, New York 1991

Language:

  • offered only in German

Notes:

Admission requirements for taking the module:
- None (The competencies of the modules listed under 'Requires' are needed for this module, but are not a formal prerequisite)

Admission requirements for participation in module examination(s):
- Successful completion of homework assignments as specified at the beginning of the semester

Module exam(s):
- MA4341-L1: Time series analysis, oral exam, 30 min, 100 % of module grade

Last Updated:

22.02.2022