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Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)
Techniques for visualizing, decomposing, and understanding temporal structures in financial time series.
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Feature Engineering for Time Series
Lag features, rolling statistics, seasonal indicators, and date-based encodings.
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Classical Forecasting Methods
- ARIMA / SARIMA
- Facebook Prophet
- Vector Auto Regression
- Arch/Garch for volatility modeling
- Single and Double Exponential Smoothing
- Holt Winters Exponential Smoothing
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Machine Learning Approaches
- Random Forests
- XGBoost
- Long Short Term Memory
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Model Optimization and Evaluation
Grid-search-cv , Randomized-search-cv, Training with cross-validation, and performance metrics (MAE, RMSE, MAPE).
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Additional concpets covered
Grangers causality test, Parameter selection with AIC , BIC