Forecasting: principles and practice
An online forecasting textbook
Rob J Hyndman, George Athanasopoulos
Welcome to our new online textbook on forecasting. This book is intended as a replacement for Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (Wiley 1998).
The entire book is available online and free-of-charge. Of course, we won’t make much money doing this, but textbooks never make much money anyway — the publishers make all the money. We’d rather create something that is widely used and useful, than have large publishers profit from our efforts.
Eventually a print version of the book will be available to purchase on Amazon, but not until a few more chapters are written.
This textbook is intended to provide a comprehensive introduction to forecasting methods and present enough information about each method for readers to use them sensibly. We don’t attempt to give a thorough discussion of the theoretical details behind each method, although the references at the end of each chapter will fill in many of those details.