Time Series Analysis

Routing Summary

ARIMA, transfer functions, VAR, cointegration, ECM, and Granger causality for marketing time series.

Concept Map

ConceptNoteTypeDepends OnKey Result
Univariate ARIMA / Box-JenkinsSingle Marketing Time SeriesconceptMarkets Data and Sales Drivers, Carryover Effects and Distributed Lags, Design of Dynamic Response ModelsBox-Jenkins ARIMA characterizes univariate marketing series structure
Transfer function modelsTransfer Function ModelconceptSingle Marketing Time Series, Carryover Effects and Distributed Lags, Design of Dynamic Response ModelsRelates marketing output to inputs with autocorrelated noise
Persistence & cointegrationMultivariate Persistence and CointegrationconceptTransfer Function Model, Single Marketing Time Series, Reaction Functions and Competitive DynamicsVAR captures six channels; cointegration tests long-run equilibrium
Empirical causal orderingEmpirical Causal OrderingconceptMultivariate Persistence and Cointegration, Reaction Functions and Competitive DynamicsVAR causal ordering via Granger tests, impulse responses, variance decomposition

Notes

  • Single Marketing Time Series — CONTAINS: weak/covariance stationarity (Eqs 6.5-6.6), deterministic components (trend, seasonality, cyclicality, heteroscedasticity), linear-filter representation (Eq 6.10), ARMA (Eq 6.11), ACF (Eq 6.27) and PACF, AR(1) (Eqs 6.40, 6.42) and MA(1) models, the ACF/PACF diagnostic summary (Table 6-2), the Box-Jenkins identification procedure, ARIMA(p,d,q) (Eq 6.76), seasonal ARIMA (Eq 6.79), and Box-Cox variance stabilization (Eq 6.74).
  • Transfer Function Model — CONTAINS: single-input transfer function (Eqs 7.7-7.8), two-input TF model (Eqs 7.14-7.15), prewhitening identification (Eqs 7.9-7.12), cross-correlation function (CCF) patterns, Liu-Hanssens (1982) direct-lag regression (Eq 7.16), intervention analysis (Box-Tiao 1975, Eqs 7.19-7.20), pulse and step interventions with response scenarios, and residual ACF/CCF diagnostic checking.
  • Multivariate Persistence and Cointegration — CONTAINS: VARMA (Eq 7.21), VAR (Eq 7.22), bivariate sales-advertising VAR (Eq 7.23), the six channels of total impact (Dekimpe & Hanssens 1995a), multivariate persistence (Eq 7.24), four strategic scenarios (business-as-usual, escalation, hysteresis, co-evolution), cointegration (Engle-Granger 1987, Eq 7.26), Engle-Granger and Johansen FIML tests (Eqs 7.27-7.28), and the error-correction model (ECM, Eq 7.29).
  • Empirical Causal Ordering — CONTAINS: Granger causality tests (F-test, likelihood ratio), impulse response function (IRF), forecast error variance decomposition (FEVD), Cholesky (triangular) decomposition, structural VAR (SVAR), the Evans-Wells (1983) method, and short-interval-data causal ordering (advertising → price → sales).

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