A LECTURER PARTICIPATION FROM BASRA UNIVERSITY IN AN ONLINE COURSE VIA FCC PLATFORM 

Bahaa Abdul Razzaq Qasim, the lecturer in the Statistics Department at the College of Administration and Economics at Basra University, participated in an online course entitled "Time Series Analysis Using Eviews Program", as (lecturer) on the FCC platform at exactly 3 pm on Saturday and Sunday 5/2020 23-24, organized by the Statistics Department at the College of Administration and Economics at Basra University.

The online course aimed to address the concept of time series and analyze it using Eviews.

The course included several axes, the first axis dealt with the concept of time series and its stability, and the second axis discussed linear models to represent time series data (the self-regression model, the AR model, the moving averages model and the self-regression ARMA, the moving averages models and the integrated self-regression ARIMA), and the third axis discussed the tests.  Unit root to detect the stability of the time series and between the fourth axes the application using Eviews for unit root tests and estimating the above-mentioned linear models as well as how to read and interpret the obtained results.

It is noteworthy that the workshop targeted a group of researchers, including university and institute lecturers, and postgraduate students.