FOURCAST version 96.1
We hope that you enjoy this version of FOURCAST.
To register to  receive  upgrades to the latest version, as well as 
to expand the use of your package to include more data, electronic stock
market, commodity, options, economic and other financial data bases, a
user's monograph + educational magazine article, case based & research
journal references,  send  US$25 +
Shipping & Handling (required in all cases)
(US customers add US$10).                      Total = US$35
(Canadian customers add US$15).            Total = US$40
(International customers add US$20).       Total = US$45

to:
Engineering Management Consultants
Centerville Road
P.O.Box 12518
Tallahassee, Fl 32317-2518
USA
Tel (904) 668 0635
url http://www.polaris.net/~fourcast
email: fourcast@polaris.net
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RUNNING SETUP:
Place the FOURCAST disk in drive A. From the File menu of Program
Manager or File Manager, choose Run, type a:setup then press enter. 

If FOURCAST was downloaded or copied to a directory on your hard
disk (drive c), then, from the File menu of Program Manager choose
Run, type c:\directoryname\setup then  press enter.

Follow the setup instructions on the screen. To start FOURCAST, click
on the newly created FOURCAST icon.

If FOURCAST was previously installed, then your data files will be
retained. Only program files will be updated.

*If you encounter an error message such as "unable to copy ver.dl_ file,"
this is due to a date conflict. You must remove the file named VER.DL
from your windows sub directory and repeat the setup procedure.*
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WHAT IS FOURCAST ?

Fourcast stands for "very nice indeed!"
Educational, but it is much much more: unlimited profit potential!
You can receive immediate rewards, while developing a long term strategy
for personal financial independence. 

FOURCAST is a computer program for  forecasting either univariate
or mulivariate time series (a collection of observations made sequentially
in time). It is designed to address a broad spectrum of uses in science,
 finance and industry. Popular applications include index values, price,
income, power system loading, sales, gross national product, temperature,
rainfall and energy. FOURCAST will process data for multivariate
analysis, using several time series, regarding them as auto correlated
(the association of each variable with itself over time) and cross correlated
(the association between different variables).

FOURCAST analyzes & forecasts times series:
. Hourly
. Daily
. Weekly
. Monthly
. Bi-Monthly
. Quarterly
. Bi-Annually
. Yearly

SIMPLE TO USE AND FLEXIBLE:
. Pop-up main and sub menus
. Keyboard macro automation
. Telecommunications
. Easy updating
. Prompt instructed interactive input
.  A user oriented editor
. Data transformation functions
. Selective printing and plotting

OPTIONAL REPORT TYPES:
. Color graphics forecast
. Tabular forecast
.  Analysis of variance
. Parameter estimates
. Inferential statistics
. Analysis of residuals
. Comparison of actual and forecast
. Frequency and Impulse response plots

FOURCAST employs a technique known as the Moving Window-Spectral
Method (MWS). This method is particularly effective when the time series
contain cyclical components. A moving time window is used to determine
how the cycles change over time. The cycles are forecast individually,
then recombined. The forecast is dynamic. When the forecast cycles are
in alignment, turning points and changes in trend will occur. Also,
antithetic forecasting is used to reduce bias.

FOURCAST Systems: 
Educational version (complete multivariate time series analysis + case based instructional forecasting)
Univariate version (complete multivariate time series analysis & univariate forecasting)
3 variable multivariate version (complete multivariate time series analysis & multivariate forecasting)
7 variable professional version (complete multivariate time series analysis & multivariate forecasting)
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To close this file click on this screen then click on File then Close.
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