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Review title: What is an introduction?
Product review: The term 'introduction' is odd for a book bristling with mathematical symbols. Some academics don't always understand that people without mathematical training still need to use concepts taught in universities.This book is excellent if you've had that training and want to expand your knowledge. It's really an introduction at the top floor of the learning edifice, not the front entrance!More positively, the software that comes with it is excellent. The examples are clear enough and you can bypass a lot of the deeper mathematics by letting the program suggest the best models. But the only way to get the full benefit of it is to understand the accompanying discussion. This I tried to do by looking in other books (and the WWW) for a more straightforward approach directed at 'dummies'.For an introduction to the complex area of time series analysis a lot less maths would have made this book much more readable. But I will keep at it.
