Using microcomputers in teaching time series analysis

Time Series Analysis is a particular area of Statistics that has seen remarkable progress in the last 20 years. There has been increased activity and interest in both the theory and practice of the subject that has led in some sense to a unification of methodologies that existed previously. It is clearly not pure coincidence that the growth in Time Series Analysis has occurred at the same time as the growth of computing availability. Software of suitable quality was a little slow in appearing at first. But recent years have seen the introduction of many new and re-vamped statistical packages, and most of these nowadays contain quite extensive Time Series routines.