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Despite the claims of the authors, this is not a book for the beginners. It requires quite a bit of mathematical maturity and an in-depth knowledge of statistical methods. Here's a summary:
Disadvantages of the book:
1. It is a difficult and frustrating read.
2. Development of difference equations (fundamental tool in analyses of time series) is scattered everywhere and weak at best.
3. The material is not presented in a cohesive manner.
4. The author constantly relegates important theorems to the end of the chapter sections (which supposedly could be skipped on the first reading) and refers to these theorems in subsequent sections.
5. This book contains lots of typos.
6. Important results that must be discussed within the text material are left as exercises.
7. The notation is strange. Example: A random variable is universally represented by a capital letter such as an X. Author uses lower case letters to represent random variables.
8. The coverage of frequency domain is appalling. The author does a ghastly job of introducing Fourier Series and Transform. An entire chapter (chapter 3) is on frequency domain analysis. The question after reading the chapter is: so what???
9. No solutions or hints are provided so this book is practically useless for self-study.
Advantages:
1. It covers some recent developments in time series.
2. Its associated website has some decent data and S code.
3. It has a nice book cover.
There are plenty of other books better, or I should say much superior to this useless book:
1. Time Series Analysis by Hamilton
2. Introduction to Time Series and Forecasting by Brockwell
3. Applied Econometric Time Series by Enders (A bit outdated but very readable)
4. Analysis of Time Series by Chatfield (Lower level but a good book)
Conclusion: There are lots of other alternatives. This is a horrible book. It may be popular but I believe its popularity is due to good marketing and possibly good connections the authors may have.
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